Qualla: Drumheller: The Town the Dinosaurs Built https://qualla.com/drumheller-dinosaur en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/c/3/p/u/drumheller-dinosaurs-wk/related-sibling-horseshoe-canyon-drumheller-al.jpg Qualla: Drumheller: The Town the Dinosaurs Built https://qualla.com/drumheller-dinosaur Drumheller: The Town the Dinosaurs Built: Introduction https://qualla.com/drumheller-dinosaur/ Photo credit Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0. The hills around Drumheller are made of dead dinosaurs. That's an exaggeration, but not by much. The Red Deer River Valley cuts through formations that were swamp and river 70 million years ago, when dinosaurs died and sank into mud that eventually became stone. Now that stone is eroding, and bones emerge constantly - skulls of tyrannosaurs, skeletons of hadrosaurs, the tiny teeth of prehistoric crocodiles. The fossil wealth is so concentrated that Drumheller became a dinosaur town: the Royal Tyrrell Museum holds 160,000 specimens and keeps finding more. Visitors come for fossils and find an alien landscape of hoodoos and badlands that looks like it should still have dinosaurs walking through it.

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/3/p/u/drumheller-dinosaur-wk/c3pu-drumheller-the-town-the-dinosaurs-built-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Drumheller: The Town the Dinosaurs Built: The Bones https://qualla.com/drumheller-dinosaur/ Photo credit Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0. Joseph Tyrrell found the first dinosaur skull near Drumheller in 1884 - an Albertosaurus, a tyrannosaur cousin. More skulls followed. The Horseshoe Canyon and Dinosaur Park formations exposed around Drumheller proved to be among the world's richest dinosaur graveyards. The condit...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/3/p/u/drumheller-dinosaur-wk/c3pu-drumheller-the-town-the-dinosaurs-built-the-bones.mp3 0:06 2 full Drumheller: The Town the Dinosaurs Built: The Museum https://qualla.com/drumheller-dinosaur/ Photo credit Ssalomons, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Royal Tyrrell Museum opened in 1985 as Canada's premier paleontological institution. The collection now exceeds 160,000 specimens, with over 40 complete dinosaur skeletons on display. The museum is built into the badlands landscape, emerging from the earth like a fossil itsel...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/3/p/u/drumheller-dinosaur-wk/c3pu-drumheller-the-town-the-dinosaurs-built-the-museum.mp3 0:06 3 full Drumheller: The Town the Dinosaurs Built: The Badlands https://qualla.com/drumheller-dinosaur/ Photo credit Ssalomons, CC BY-SA 3.0. The landscape around Drumheller is otherworldly - hoodoos, coulees, striped cliffs in rust and gray, and almost no vegetation. The Red Deer River cut through 70 million years of sediment, exposing layers like the pages of a book. Different formations hold different fossils: the H...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/3/p/u/drumheller-dinosaur-wk/c3pu-drumheller-the-town-the-dinosaurs-built-the-badlands.mp3 0:06 4 full Drumheller: The Town the Dinosaurs Built: The Town https://qualla.com/drumheller-dinosaur/ Photo credit Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0. Drumheller leaned into its dinosaur identity completely. The downtown has the 'World's Largest Dinosaur' - a 86-foot T-rex statue with an observation deck in the jaw. Dinosaur statues appear on every corner. Businesses have dinosaur names, dinosaur logos, dinosaur mascots. The co...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/3/p/u/drumheller-dinosaur-wk/c3pu-drumheller-the-town-the-dinosaurs-built-the-town.mp3 0:06 5 full Drumheller: The Town the Dinosaurs Built: Visiting Drumheller https://qualla.com/drumheller-dinosaur/ Photo credit Ssalomons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Drumheller is located 135 kilometers northeast of Calgary via the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 9. The Royal Tyrrell Museum is the primary attraction - plan at least half a day; fossil enthusiasts need longer. The Dinosaur Trail scenic drive loops through the badlands with vie...

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