The Badlands are a hotbed for fossil discovery and palaeontologists know they can't find all the exposed dinosaur bones because there's just not enough of them to cover the vast area.
Francois Therrien is the curator of dinosaur palaeoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller and says the pandemic produced many amateur palaeontologists with people opting to vacation at local sites rather than exotic destinations.
Therrien says fossils in Alberta are protected by law, they're not the property of the landowner or of the person who discovered them. They belong to the government, which protects and maintains them for in the best interest of all Albertans. "In the Badlands the rate of erosion is really rapid, we're talking sometimes up to one centimeter of erosion per year," he said."So even if you walk on the surface of an outcrop one year, you come back the following year, erosion could have exposed other fossils so that's why it's really important to always come back to the same areas, it may be year after year or every other year to see what new fossils are coming up at the surface due to erosion.
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