Canadian dinosaurs · Drawing 32 of 32
A Dinosaur at the Museum
Canada · Observe and compare
At a museum, a skeleton helps us imagine an animal from the past. Look at its legs, neck and tail: the bones offer many clues.
Did you know?
Museums care for fossils so people can study and share them.
Look together
Which dinosaur would you like to visit again?
An idea to try
Choose your favourite page and explain what surprised you.
For the adult reading along
A little more to discover
Museum collections support research and exhibitions. A mount may combine fossil bones, casts and reconstructed parts. This imagined gallery presents a hadrosaur, inviting readers to compare bones with the living-animal outlines elsewhere in the book.
Look together: Which dinosaur would you like to visit again? Choose your favourite page and explain what surprised you.
Sources and illustration notes (2)
An imagined gallery and visitors. The skeleton is simplified for colouring and does not represent a particular museum specimen.
These links lead to other websites. Explore them with an adult. Source titles appear in their original language; some linked pages are in French.
- Canadian Museum of Nature: Fossil GallerySee the scene’s factual text and editorial source notes.
- Canadian Museum of Nature: Palaeobiology CollectionsSee the scene’s factual text and editorial source notes.
Source review: 2026-10-02. Illustrations are simplified for colouring.
