Alberta Palaeontological Society

Alberta Palaeontological Society The Alberta Palaeontological Society is a non-profit founded to promote the science of palaeontology through study and education.
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Another exciting week of palaeo events!Monday, August 17, 2026, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Tyrant Lizard Kings and Queens, E...
08/17/2026

Another exciting week of palaeo events!

Monday, August 17, 2026, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Tyrant Lizard Kings and Queens, Eh? A Tale of Canadian T.rexes @ Infinity Dome, TELUS Spark Science Centre, 220 St. George's Drive NE, Calgary, AB (TELUS Spark)

Friday, August 21, 2026, 6:30 p.m. - Saturday, August 22, 2026, 9:30 a.m.: Night at the Museum - August @ Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, Wembley, AB (Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum)

Saturday, August 22: Pipestone Creek Bonebed Tour and Excavation @ Wembley, AB (Alberta Palaeontological Society)
Sunday, August 23, 2026 - Monday, August 24, 2026: Tumbler Ridge Trip @ Tumbler Ridge, BC (Alberta Palaeontological Society)

Sunday, August 23, 2026, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.: Hunting Giants: The Dinosaurs of Alberta @ Franks Community Pub, 8815 99 St NW, Edmonton, AB (Frank's Lectures On Tap)

Monday, August 24 - Wednesday, August 26: 34th Canadian Palaeontology Conference (CPC 2026) @ University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan (Geological Association of Canada - Paleontology Division)

For more information: see https://albertapaleo.org/events/calendar

The field trip season is in full swing! This past weekend Tako Koning led a popular trip to the K-Pg extinction layer in...
07/29/2026

The field trip season is in full swing! This past weekend Tako Koning led a popular trip to the K-Pg extinction layer in southern Alberta.

You can see the exact layer in the rock where (many) dinosaurs went extinct! It's an amazing experience to be able to touch this layer with your own two hands.

If you'd like to sign up for our other trips, you're just in time - registrations close August 1.

https://albertapaleo.org/events/fieldtrips

We're sorting microfossils again this fall!When it's too cold to go looking outside, join us inside to look for microfos...
07/29/2026

We're sorting microfossils again this fall!

When it's too cold to go looking outside, join us inside to look for microfossils! We'll be in Rm. B140 at Mount Royal University, Calgary.

No experience is necessary - we're happy to show you the ropes!

October 18
November 1
November 22
December 6

https://albertapaleo.org/events for more information!

More exciting palaeo events!Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Fossil Treasures from the Burgess Shale @ T...
07/28/2026

More exciting palaeo events!

Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Fossil Treasures from the Burgess Shale @ TELUS Spark Science Centre, Calgary, AB (TELUS Spark & Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation)

Sunday, August 2, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.: Devil's Coulee - Sunset Tour of the Fossil Site @ Warner, AB (meet at museum; drive to fossil site) (Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum)

For more information: see https://albertapaleo.org/events/calendar

Another exciting palaeo event this week!Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Dino Day @ Legend Art Gallery,...
07/14/2026

Another exciting palaeo event this week!

Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Dino Day @ Legend Art Gallery, 519 7 Street South, Lethbridge, AB (Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum & Legend Art Gallery)

For more information: see https://albertapaleo.org/events/calendar

Last Saturday we had our first field trip of the year! Dr. Chris Jass and Katherine Bramble led us around the collection...
06/27/2026

Last Saturday we had our first field trip of the year! Dr. Chris Jass and Katherine Bramble led us around the collections at the Royal Alberta Museum, showing us the parts of the collection that the public generally doesn't get to see. Along the way we learned about Ice Age mammals, becoming a palaeontologist, and the role of the gravel industry to palaeontology.

Interested in other field trips? https://albertapaleo.org/events/fieldtrips

While Alberta is better known for its vertebrate fossils, we have plant fossils as well! These are the fossils of the Da...
06/26/2026

While Alberta is better known for its vertebrate fossils, we have plant fossils as well! These are the fossils of the Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia. These plants would have thrived in the Late Cretaceous swamps and deltas that made up the western part of Southern Alberta and provided abundant food for the herds of dinosaurs that made their home in this region. Notably, there's a living species of this genus!

For this Fossil Friday we have the claw bone (ungual phalanx) from a small theropod from the Dinosaur Park Formation in ...
06/20/2026

For this Fossil Friday we have the claw bone (ungual phalanx) from a small theropod from the Dinosaur Park Formation in southern Alberta. It’s not clear exactly what species this bone is from, but there are a number of candidates, including Troodon and Saurornitholestes (a cousin of Velociraptor). In life this bone would have been covered in a sheath of keratin, making it much larger!

This specimen was found by Hope Johnson and is APS 2006.071. Photo credit Howard Allen.

Happy Fossil Friday! This fossil is the feeding appendage of Anomalocaris canadensis. When originally discovered it was ...
06/12/2026

Happy Fossil Friday! This fossil is the feeding appendage of Anomalocaris canadensis. When originally discovered it was thought to be the headless body of a shrimp, but was later discovered to be part of one of the Middle Cambrian’s largest predators.

This fossil was found at the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds in Yoho National Park. This site features spectacular soft-body preservation and an enormous quantity of trilobites.

This week’s Fossil Friday is a Late Cretaceous sea star from Alberta (APS 1987.038). It was found in the Cardium Formati...
05/22/2026

This week’s Fossil Friday is a Late Cretaceous sea star from Alberta (APS 1987.038). It was found in the Cardium Formation, which formed along the shallow margin of the Western Interior Seaway. This seaway bisected North America, connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This sea star would have lived in the warm, shallow waters along that margin.

It was found by Harvey Negrich and Don Sabo. Photo credit Howard Allen.

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