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• Royal Tyrrell Museum Pop-Ups |

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  As we mark the Museum’s 40th anniversary, we invite you to celebrate with us. We’re sharing Alberta’s incredible fossils through an exciting collaboration with libraries across the province! From September 2025 through September 2026, check out our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deep Alberta

  Fossil Facts and Dinosaur Digs

  Acorn, John, 1958-

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  A rare gem only available in print from the Local History collection at Central Library, Level 4. From phone books to fossil records, 'Calgary Story' is the place for all your Alberta-based historical research needs.

• The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

  An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

  Black, Riley,

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  Top drawer science writing that gets readers placed squarely in the shoes of dinosaurs dealing with their extinction event. Although dinosaurs did not wear shoes.

• The Ends of the World

  Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

  Brannen, Peter,

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  Highly acclaimed scientific journalism offers "a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions" and Brannen somehow manages to maintain a tongue-in-cheek humour for highly enjoyable reading without downplaying the seriousness of his subject.

• Jurassic Park

  Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008

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  Make the leap from science to fiction with the GOAT author of scientific-expedition-goes-horribly-wrong thriller novels.

• Dinosaur Country

  Unearthing the Alberta Badlands Past

  Gross, Renie, 1936-

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  From the late Cretaceous 75 million years ago to the Great Canadian Dinosaur rush of the early 1900s, the geology of the Red Deer River Valley badlands has an incredible story. Currently this book is only available in-person with a visit to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Earth Was Green

  Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

  Black, Riley,

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  To think of the earth in its cosmic infancy as just one big garden oxygenating the origins of life is sooo much fun, and this book may be the very best tour guide to that earliest of worlds.

• Otherlands

  Journeys to Earth's Extinct Ecosystems

  Halliday, Thomas (Paleobiologist),

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  A brilliant young paleobiologist offers an "eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life 550 million years ago". Evolutionary palaeontology gets emotional!

• Reading the Rocks

  a Biography of Ancient Alberta

  Keiran, Monique

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  Natural history writer Monique Keiran teams up with scientists at the world-renowned Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to deliver a dramatic and vividly detailed chronicle of Alberta's geological history.

• The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs

  Paul, Gregory S.

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  In a world filled with dinosaur encyclopedias it only makes sense to go with the field guide recommended directly by Royal Tyrrell, from an author who worked as expert consultant on the Jurassic Park movie.

• Fossil Hunter

  Sawyer, Robert J.

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  A sci-fi classic from a Canadian author that is set on a planet where dinosaurs evolved as the dominant species. Love knowing that staff at the Royal Tyrrell sprinkle in a little hard sci-fi.

• Your Inner Fish

  a Journey Into the 3.5-billion-year History of the Human Body

  Shubin, Neil

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  The story of evolution unfolds with naturally slow pacing. It is the longest, slowest story of all. Irresistible enthusiasm from this author turns our genetic history into a pulse-pounding heartwarmer. We also meet our inner monkey and reptile.

• Into the Dinosaurs' Graveyard

  Canadian Digs and Discoveries

  Spalding, David A. E., 1937-

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  At the time of this publication, Southern Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park was the single most bountiful dinosaur site in the world, and so were the stories of the maverick and eccentric fossil hunters making their discovery.