The world-class Royal Tyrrell Museum displays more than 35 dinosaur skeletons and hundreds of fossils, the most under one roof anywhere. Its imaginative presentations and interactive learning opportunities are a perfect blend of the engaging and the educational.

The museum covers the breadth of life on Earth, beginning with the fist evidence of slimy life about 3.5 billion years ago up to the last ice age, some 12,000 years ago; however; the dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous occupy centre stage.

Hands-on exhibits make learning fun. A crank at the Clamming Up display opens and closes giant clam shells, demonstrating the different ligament-muscle solutions for such an operation. Similarly, a crank controls the jaws of big dinosaurs, showing that the muscle-driven levers suited a dinosaur’s needs: a plant-eater’s jaws move slowly and powerfully, whereas a fish-eater’s jaws move quickly but weakly.