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Thank you for that link to General Confusion. Made my day. Check out the freshman T-rex with his lava lamp and the sordid diatripe:

http://www.generalfusion.com/fossil_fuel_crisis.php

The planet was covered with dense clouds and the atmosphere contained a high concentration of carbon dioxide, producing tropical conditions north of the 45th parallel. For example, many dinosaur fossils were excavated in Alberta, Canada. As the earth's crust cooled down, volcanic activity reduced.

Riddle of Burgess Shale's fossil-rich deposits solved

The site, close to the B.C.-Alberta border, is considered crucial to understanding the so-called Cambrian "explosion" of life - a time when the future Canadian land mass was drifting in tropical climes close to the Earth's equator.

In my historical atlas, the equator is considerably south of the 45th latitude. The dinosaur fossils in Alberta are equatorial in origin. But hey, if you can't get that right, no obstacle to solving the fusion problem. Like it's not a hard problem or anything. The typical Alberta fat cat oilman probably doesn't believe in plate tectonics to begin with. Just a bunch of mud we turn into money. Now they're all excited about version 2: just a bunch of water we turn into money.

BTW, the Royal Tyrrell Museum in the Alberta badlands is pretty kick-ass if you're into bones.

Hands down the best paleontology museum. I've been 5 times, and am still fascinated. And after the museum, you can explore the Canadian Badlands where many of the fossils were uncovered.

http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/exhibits.htm

http://www.customwoolenmills.com/ and http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/ in aberta canada for industrial age machinery in a working situation and a look into earths past

The Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta is awesome if you are interested in paleontology. If travelling by car from the U.S., a route that also stops at Dinosaur Provincial Park is worthwhile. For a more balanced style of natural history museum (everything from bats to dinosaurs to insects), check out the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. There's also the Ontario Science Centre, which is very cool too, especially for kids and, shall we say, adults that still think like kids.

Oh yeah. And if traveling to Alberta from the U.S., a stop in Bozeman, Montana yields both the Museum of the Rockies and the American Computer Museum.
 

Visit the Royal Tyrell Museum http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/ in Drumheller, Alberta. Right in the badlands so you can visualize the dinos roaming around outside.

Ontatio: The ROM (Royal Ontatrio Museum) -Toronto http://www.rom.on.ca/
The Science Center -Toronto http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/

Science North -Sudbury http://www2.sciencenorth.ca/

Alberta has The Royal Tyrell Museum of Palentolgy (which may still have day trips in to the bad lands to active dig sites where you get to help). http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/

The Big Valley Creation Science Museum has recently opened in "Big Valley", Alberta, Canada - just a 3 hour drive from where I live. It has been built awfully darn close (1hr drive) to the REAL kind of museum you would expect to see in this area full of Dinosaur remains

I look forward to visiting BVCSM wearing my "Reality fish eating a Jesus fish" shirt.

I had the same experience when I went back to visit the Royal Tyrrell Musem in Drumheller, Alberta -- perhaps the premiere dinosaur museum in North America, if not the world -- and was shocked to see how it had changed in the fifteen years since I'd been there.

I had the same experience as the parent -- the well-made dioramas and informative visual displays and had been replaced by literal flashing lights, kiosks, ominous music and so forth. I actually did learn something, but that was from an old exhibit that was in a wing slated for renovation and covered in dust (and one I remembered from my last visit) -- it probably isn't there now.

But I think the clock will eventually start swinging back. Why go to a museum to look at a computer/video? Just watch it over broadband. If the museums want to keep their doors open and attract patrons, they'll have to resurrect their old mandate (if any of the old currators are left alive).

The Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada is one of the most exceptional museums I have ever been to. It truly feels like you are stepping back millions of years, and is a world-class facility.

While you're out there, check out the Banff-Jasper corridor of the Rocky Mountains, particularly the Columbia Icefields and Johnston Canyon. Spectacular geographic features of North America can be found there, and the glaciers date back to the last ice age!