Wildlife: Saskatchewan's Grasslands National Park, 1 by Lilypon

Lilypon wrote:
In the park are fossilized remains of Triceratops as well as other prehistoric creatures.

Near and in the Eastern Block of Grasslands National Park the following has been found:

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Dr. Caviades of the U. of S. did a study of Rockglen and District in 1973 and found that it is one of 4 areas in North America not touched by the last glacial movement. The other 3 are Cypress Hills, Porcupine Hills, AB and a area in Wisconsin.
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in 1919 a brontosaur measuring 66' long was excavated from a area west of Killdeer and shipped to Ottawa.
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in 1955 a biologist from Ottawa discovered a rich fossil bed in Lawrence Yost's gravel pit. They unearthed 15 million year old fossils of mammals including the 3-toed horse , squirrels, mice, beavers, rabbits, weasels, shrews and horn-cores of small antelope.
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A giant sea turtle measuring 12' long was excavated west of Killdeer. It is believed to be 100 million years old.
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In 1967, 2 biologists from Toronto found the richest deposit of small mammal fossils to that date in North America on John Kleinfelder's farm. Among them were the skull of a 3-toed horse and the tusk and bone fossils identified, by the Royal Ontario Museum's Dr. Russell, to be that of a 4 tusked mastodon.
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Effie Mattson found a fossil of a trilobite on top of a hill North of Rockglen.
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a few miles east of the village of Fife Lake a petrified tree was found, measuring 4 ' in diameter at the base and 30' long.
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That countless stone tools including axes, hammers, spear and arrow points, knives and scrapers have been found all over the area.
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That Sitting Bull hunted this area while he was camped at Wood Mountain.
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that Fife Lake was dry in 1895 and again in 1937. In 1937, while the lake was dry, coal was mined from the lake bed and Mr. William Belbeck discovered a imprint of a huge leaf resembling a palm leaf.