By Lindsay Kastroll, Master’s student in Biological Sciences, University of Alberta Ideas for holidays, birthdays, and just-because kinds of days. Let’s face it: with kid-focused products saturating the dinosaur market, it’s difficult to shop for adults without defaulting to the same movie franchise merchandise every year. With gift-giving season in full swing, you may be worrying about what to get

By Lindsay Kastroll, Master’s student in Biological Sciences, University of Alberta Demystifying the way the science actually works… In the last edition of Palaeo How-To, we discussed the different types of fossils and how they form. However, that edition focused specifically on body fossils, which are direct evidence of an organism represented by actual fossilized parts of that organism. Dinosaur

By Lindsay Kastroll, Master’s student in Biological Sciences, University of Alberta Demystifying the way the science actually works… Welcome back to Palaeo How-To, the blog series that breaks down the behind-the-scenes processes of palaeontology. In our first edition of Palaeo How-To, we explored what it means to study palaeontology, the study of prehistoric life. For something to be considered prehistoric,

By Lindsay Kastroll, Master’s student in Biological Sciences, University of Alberta Demystifying the way the science actually works… Much of the work that museums do boils down to educating the public, and they are often quite good at it. You probably wouldn’t be reading this blog if that wasn’t the case! Science communication is an important part of what museums

By Lindsay Kastroll, Master’s student in Biological Sciences, University of Alberta When you think about the hit table-top roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, you typically think about elves, wizards, magical quests, and of course, dragons. Dinosaurs don’t really factor into that equation. However, you may be surprised to learn that prehistoric creatures have had a long history in Dungeons & Dragons, going back

Huge dinosaurs like Pachyrhinosaurus and Edmontosaurus roamed the Grande Prairie area about 70 million years ago, but such heavyweights never had the Cretaceous world to themselves. There were plenty of smaller dinosaurs around, like the little carnivore Boreonykus, and dinosaurs were only one component of a diverse ecosystem that also included fish, turtles, mammals and many other vertebrates, alongside plants and invertebrates. However, small vertebrates

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