Labels:text | reptile | newspaper | mammal OCR: ain. Build-your-own d with talk about the As you all know, our Society Membership is now open for individuals, families and ensure a lively if brief businesses. To date over twenty members havesubscribed, so "let's get at it" and 's on the bus! Who's in join up. Your participation enables the Society to provide much of the needed etsy, could you have support it is now beginning to give to the Museum, of-the-way spot? Geez, As a result of the commemorative stamps issued October 1 in Drumheller, the ack just to go to the Society is initiating a letter writing program. School children will utilize the Dinosaur st ended up in Stettler stamps unveiled at a ceremony held at the Museum. Several schod groups were But how about them in attendance and were addressed by The Honourable Gary Mar, aurs, hadrosaurs and Minister of Community Development and our local MLA, The talk about cattle of the Honourable Stan Schumacher. The Society is funding the program wind and a butt full of entirely through the generous support of local businesses who will ask for anything be providing the prizes, envelopes and Dino stamps, ere's more! Yep, Dr. dazzle us with his saurs, Dr. Paul will prove of a doubt that y large clams, and Dr. ademic resignation, Ill we did was dinosaurs, it for three hours. How ake a career out of with a dental pick? Now degrees Cheat does after twenty years, guys nuts, or what? m by 5:30 and just wander through the ere seems to be more Kids Corner n now of what it takes one of those Dear Dr. Xiphactinus, Slowly everyone drifts Collections, following "How do you know the names of powerful aroma of dinosaurs?" er indeed is a culinary yours truly, eat salad all the way Sabrina bumbleberry pie. A Dear Sabrina, r to round out the Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions ation, collect up our Projects ws and errant spouses, and sinceno one was around to name th s on the "The Land Before Us" when they were alive scientists began gi ound ... oh, my each dinosaur a name as their fossils wer do you remember Alberta is the site of some of the best palaeontological discovered. callit ... hey, great finds on the planet. Dinosaur Provincial Park is a But they don't just pull a name out of a ha ext year? Yup, I know smorgasbord of Cretaceous dinosaur remains, Wapiti are accepted scientific rules for classifyir ve to do this next year! Lake, BC has yielded superb marine specimens, while the naming dinosaurs - thesame rules that a Drumheller Valley itself has been the source of some of naming all living organisms, the finest dinosaur skeletons yet unearthed. One of the reasons why dinosaur names long and hard to pronounce is that scien In spite of these finds, very little has been written about often give them Latin names because Lc Alberta's rich palaeontological past. "The Land Before Us" language all scientists understand, nom will address this vacuum. This superbly illustrated what their mother tongue, publication, chronicling Alberta's gedlogical past, When a palaeontologist discovers a new combines art and science in an innovative dinosaur he or she can pick a name that contemporary format. The Museum's scientific staff are describe the animal .. like Triceratops. In L well experienced in presenting complex material in a means three .. "cera" means horn .. and' means face. Three horns on the face. Wit fascinating, comprehensible manner, namelike that, it's pretty easy to pick out v This 160-page colour publication is expectedtobe dinosaur it belongs to. available in the Museum, schools and bookstores in the Sometimes, palaeontologists name a di he Land after the place where it was found. Like Before Us Fall of 1994. At a cost of $180,000, the Society anticipates the book will generate about $60,000 in sales Albertosaurus. The first specimen of revenue, leaving us $120,000 to be raised. $25,000 has Albertosaurus was found in 1884 along th Deer River, Thespecimen wasn't named already been received in initial commitments, however, it however, until 1906, one year after Albert is our aim tohave the eight chapters sponsored. The task became a province - so the name was g is daunting, however, the result will place a much commemorate the newly formed provin neeeded resource in the hands of Albertans and A dinosaur can also be named after the who vers it. Like Lambe rus, whi
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