Canada, a museum with a wooly mammoth
It is not a
secret that Canada possesses a wide range of museums. If you turn out to be in
Alberta, a western province of Canada, drop into the Royal Tyrrell Museum which
is situated 6 km northwest from Drumheller or 135 km northeast from Calgary.
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| wooly mammoth fossil in the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Canada |
Facts about the Royal Tyrrel Museum in Canada
The museum was named in honour of the geologist Joseph
B. Tyrrell who accidentally, while searching for coal seams, discovered the
first dinosaur fossil in the Red Deer River valley in 1884. The museum was opened comparatively not long ago, in 1985.
It contains a series of chronological galleries including the 3.9-billion year
old history of life on our planet!
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| skull and tusks of the mammoth in the Royal Tyrrel Museum, Canada |
Exhibitions at the Royal Tyrrel Museum
The Ice Age
exhibition offers its visitors to have a glimpse at a wooly mammoth fossil. Scientists
come to the conclusion that the wooly mammoth appeared in Europe and Asia
around 250.00 years ago and moved over the Bering Land Bridge to the territory
of present North America 100.000 years ago. Measuring three metres tall and
weighing up to eight tons, the wooly mammoth died out around 10.000 years ago. Most
people believe that the natural climate change caused their extinction, though some
debate still remains about what led these huge animals to such fate.
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| a foot of a wooly mammoth in Canada |
Afterword
Isn’t it amazing that we can have a look at a tremendous
creature which skeleton has survived so many climatic, historical and political
changes in the world? And how many changes are still in front of it.
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