Tracking the Dinosaurs

Today I visited Dinosaur Provincial Park, one of the world's premier dinosaur graveyards. There have been hundreds of skeletons excavated from this area, starting in the late 19th century. Most are from the late Cretaceous era, about 75 million years ago. Late Ice Age floods scoured the prairies hereabouts into badlands, exposing the Cretaceous rock and the dinosaur skeletons. For Lizard, it was sort of a pilgrimage to commune with the spirits of his ancestors.

I did sight one reptile in the park (aside from The Lizard)...this fairly large bull snake sliding sinuously across the gravel in a parking lot.