occupation philip j. currie
Philip John Currie , FRSC AOE ( born March 13 , 1949 ) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum ___MASK49___ who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller , Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton . In the 1980s he became the director of the ___MASK42___ - China Dinosaur Project , the first cooperative palaeontological partnering between China and the West since the Central Asiatic Expeditions in the 1920s , and helped describe some of the first feathered dinosaurs . He is one of the primary editors of the influential Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs , and his areas of expertise include theropods ( especially Tyrannosauridae ) , the origin of birds , and dinosaurian migration patterns and herding behavior . He was one of the models for palaeontologist Alan Grant in the film Jurassic Park . Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands , savannas , and shrublands biome by ecologists , based on similar temperate climates , moderate rainfall , and a composition of grasses , herbs , and shrubs , rather than trees , as the dominant vegetation type . Temperate grassland regions include the Pampas of Argentina , southern Brazil and Uruguay as well as the steppes of Eurasia . Lands typically referred to as " prairie " tend to be in North America . The term encompasses the area referred to as the Interior Lowlands of ___MASK42___ , the United States , and Mexico , which includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter , somewhat hillier land to the east . In the U . S ., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota , South Dakota , Nebraska , Kansas , and Oklahoma , and sizable parts of the states of Montana , Wyoming , Colorado , New Mexico , Texas , Missouri , Iowa , Illinois , Ohio , Indiana , Wisconsin , and western and southern Minnesota . The Central Valley of California is also a prairie . The Canadian Prairies occupy vast areas of Manitoba , Saskatchewan , and Alberta . ___MASK42___ ( French : ) is a country in the northern half of North America . Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean , covering , making it the world ' s second - largest country by total area and the fourth - largest country by land area . ___MASK42___ ' s border with the United States is the world ' s longest land border . The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate , but southerly areas are warm in summer . ___MASK42___ is sparsely populated , the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains . About four - fifths of the country ' s population of 36 million people is urbanized and live near the southern border . Its capital is Ottawa , its largest city is Toronto ; other major urban areas include Montreal , Vancouver , Calgary , Edmonton , Quebec City , Winnipeg and Hamilton . The vastness of ___MASK42___ ' s Northwest Territories ( spelled ' North - West Territories ' from 1870 to 1905 ) meant that for much of its history it was divided into several districts for ease of administration . The number and size of these territorial districts varied as other provinces and territories of ___MASK42___ were created and expanded . The districts of the Northwest Territories were abolished in 1999 with the creation of Nunavut territory and the contraction of the Northwest Territories to its current size . Rachel Anne Notley ( born April 17 , 1964 ) is a Canadian ___MASK83___ and the 17th and current Premier of Alberta , since 2015 . She is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton - Strathcona , and leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party . The daughter of former Alberta NDP leader Grant Notley , Notley ' s career before politics focused on labour law , with a specialty in workers ' compensation advocacy and workplace health and safety issues . A feathered dinosaur is any species of dinosaur possessing feathers . For over 150 years , since scientific ___MASK59___ began on dinosaurs in the early 1800s , dinosaurs were generally believed to be related to the reptile family ; the word " dinosaur ", coined in 1842 by ___MASK7___ Richard Owen , comes from the Greek for " formidable lizard ". This view began to shift during the so - called dinosaur renaissance in scientific ___MASK59___ in the late 1960s , and by the mid - 1990s significant evidence had emerged that dinosaurs are much more closely related to birds . In fact , birds are now believed to have descended directly from the theropod group of dinosaurs , and are thus classified as dinosaurs themselves , meaning that any modern bird can be considered a feathered dinosaur , since all modern birds possess feathers ( with the exception of a few artificially selected chickens ). A tyrant ( Greek , " tyrannos "), in its modern English usage , is an absolute ___MASK62___ unrestrained by law or person , or one who has usurped legitimate sovereignty . Often described as a cruel character , a tyrant defends his position by oppressive means , tending to control almost everything in the state . The original Greek term , however , merely meant an authoritarian ___MASK93___ without reference to character , bearing no pejorative connotation during the Archaic and early Classical periods . However , it was clearly a negative word to Plato , a Greek ___MASK68___ , and on account of the decisive influence of philosophy on politics , its negative connotations only increased , continuing into the Hellenistic period . The Saskatchewan River ( Cree : " kisiskciwani - spiy ", " swift flowing river ") is a ___MASK19___ river in ___MASK42___ , about long , flowing roughly eastward across Saskatchewan and Manitoba to empty into Lake Winnipeg . Through its tributaries the North Saskatchewan and South Saskatchewan , its watershed encompasses much of the prairie regions of central ___MASK42___ , stretching westward to the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and northwestern Montana in the United States . It reaches to its farthest headwaters on the Bow River , a tributary of the South Saskatchewan in Alberta . The Royal Tyrrell Museum is a Canadian tourist attraction and a centre of palaeontological ___MASK59___ noted for its collection of more than 130 , 000 fossils . The Red Deer River is a river in Alberta and a small portion of Saskatchewan , ___MASK42___ . It is a major tributary of the South Saskatchewan River and is part of the larger Saskatchewan - Nelson system that empties into Hudson Bay . Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual , auditory or performing artifacts ( artworks ), expressing the ___MASK90___ ' s imaginative or technical skill , intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power . In their most ___MASK22___ form these activities include the production of works of art , the criticism of art , the study of the history of art , and the aesthetic dissemination of art . Tyrannosaurus ( or , meaning " tyrant lizard ", from the Ancient Greek " tyrannos " (  ), " tyrant ", and " sauros " (  ), " lizard ") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur . The species Tyrannosaurus rex (" rex " meaning " ___MASK29___ " in Latin ), is one of the most well - represented of the large theropods . " Tyrannosaurus " lived throughout what is now western North America , on what was then an island continent known as Laramidia . " Tyrannosaurus " had a much wider range than other tyrannosaurids . Fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period , 68 to 66 million years ago . It was the last known ___MASK16___ of the tyrannosaurids , and among the last non - avian dinosaurs to exist before the Cretaceous  Paleogene extinction event . Alberta is a western province of ___MASK42___ . With an estimated population of 4 , 196 , 457 as of July 1 , 2015 , it is ___MASK42___ ' s fourth - most populous province and the most populous of ___MASK42___ ' s three prairie provinces . Its area is about . Alberta and its neighbour Saskatchewan were districts of the Northwest Territories until they were established as provinces on September 1 , 1905 . The premier has been Rachel Notley since May 2015 . The University of Alberta ( also known as U of A and UAlberta ) is a public ___MASK59___ university located in Edmonton , Alberta , ___MASK42___ . It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford , the first premier of Alberta , and Henry Marshall Tory , its first president . Its enabling legislation is the " Post - secondary Learning Act ." The origin of birds refers to the initial stages in the evolution of birds . The scientific consensus is that birds are a group of theropod dinosaurs that evolved during the Mesozoic Era . A museum is an institution that cares for ( conserves ) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic , cultural , historical , or scientific importance and some public museums make them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary . Most large museums are located in ___MASK19___ cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities , towns and even the countryside . Museums have varying aims , ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the ___MASK22___ public . The goal of serving researchers is increasingly shifting to serving the ___MASK22___ public . Birds ( Aves ), also known as avian dinosaurs , are a group of endothermic vertebrates , characterised by feathers , toothless beaked jaws , the laying of hard - shelled eggs , a high metabolic rate , a four - chambered heart , and a lightweight but strong ___MASK33___ . Birds live worldwide and range in size from the bee hummingbird to the ostrich . They rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living species , at approximately ten thousand , with more than half of these being passerines , sometimes known as perching birds or , less accurately , as songbirds . Saskatchewan ( or ) is a prairie and boreal province in west - central ___MASK42___ , the only province without natural borders . It has an area of , nearly 10 percent of which is fresh water , composed mostly of rivers , reservoirs , and the province ' s 100 , 000 lakes . The Mesozoic Era ( or ) is an interval of geological time from about . It is also called the Age of Reptiles , a phrase introduced by the 19th century ___MASK7___ Gideon Mantell who viewed it as dominated by diapsids such as " Iguanodon ", " Megalosaurus ", " Plesiosaurus " and " Pterodactylus ". This Era is also called from a paleobotanist view the Age of Conifers . The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago ( Mya ) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period Mya . It is the last period of the Mesozoic Era . The Cretaceous Period is usually abbreviated K , for its German ___MASK89___ " Kreide " ( chalk ). Henry Marshall Tory ( January 11 , 1864  February 6 , 1947 ) was the first ___MASK43___ of the University of Alberta ( 1908  1928 ), the first ___MASK43___ of the Khaki University , the first ___MASK43___ of the National ___MASK59___ Council ( 1928  1935 ) and the first ___MASK43___ of Carleton College ( 1942  1947 ). His brother was James Cranswick Tory , Lieutenant ___MASK40___ of Nova Scotia ( 1925  1930 ). A biocurator is a professional ___MASK76___ who curates , collects , annotates , and validates information that is disseminated by biological and ___MASK32___ Organism Databases . The role of a biocurator encompasses quality control of primary biological research data intended for publication , extracting and organizing data from original scientific literature , and describing the data with standard annotation protocols and vocabularies that enable powerful queries and biological database inter - operability . Biocurators communicate with researchers to ensure the accuracy of curated information and to foster data exchanges with research laboratories . A ___MASK49___ ( from , meaning " to take care ") is a ___MASK80___ or overseer . Traditionally , a ___MASK49___ or keeper of a cultural heritage institution ( e . g ., gallery , museum , library , or archive ) is a content specialist charged with an institution ' s collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material . A traditional ___MASK49___ ' s concern necessarily involves tangible objects of some sort  artwork , collectibles , historic items , or scientific collections . More recently , new kinds of curators have started to emerge : curators of digital data objects and biocurators . Scientific consensus is the collective judgment , position , and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study . Consensus implies ___MASK22___ agreement , though not necessarily unanimity . The Northwest Territories ( also known as NWT ; French : " les Territoires du Nord - Ouest ", " TNO "; Athabaskan languages : " Denendeh "; Inuinnaqtun : " Nunatsiaq "; Inuktitut :  ) is a territory of ___MASK42___ . At a land area of approximately and a 2011 population of 41 , 462 , it is the second largest and most populous of the three territories in Northern ___MASK42___ . Its estimated population as of 2016 is 44 , 291 . Yellowknife became the territorial capital in 1967 , following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission . Alexander Cameron Rutherford , KC ( February 2 , 1857  June 11 , 1941 ) was a Canadian ___MASK30___ and ___MASK83___ who served as the first premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910 . Born in Ormond , Ontario , he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the North - West Territories in 1895 . Here he began his political career , winning in his third attempt a seat in the North - West Legislative Assembly . In keeping with the territorial custom Rutherford ran as an independent , though he generally supported the territorial administration of Premier Frederick W . A . G . Haultain . At the federal level , however , Rutherford was a Liberal . An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located . Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization ' s lifetime , and are kept to show the function of that person or organization . Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal , ___MASK65___ , administrative , or social activities . They have been metaphorically defined as " the secretions of an organism ", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity . Tyrannosauridae ( or tyrannosaurids , meaning " tyrant lizards ") is a family of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs which comprises two subfamilies containing up to eleven genera , including the eponymous " Tyrannosaurus ". The exact number of genera is controversial , with some experts recognizing as few as three . All of these animals lived near the end of the Cretaceous Period and their fossils have been found only in North America and Asia . Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical ___MASK60___ artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations , maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations . Cultural heritage includes tangible culture ( such as buildings , monuments , landscapes , books , works of art , and artifacts ), intangible culture ( such as folklore , traditions , language , and knowledge ), and natural heritage ( including culturally significant landscapes , and biodiversity ). Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta . Edmonton is on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region , which is surrounded by Alberta ' s central region . Drumheller is a town ( formerly a city ) within the Red Deer River valley in the badlands of east - central Alberta , ___MASK42___ . It is located northeast of Calgary . The Drumheller portion of the Red Deer River valley , often referred to as Dinosaur Valley , has an approximate width of and an approximate length of . The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier - fed river that flows east from the Canadian Rockies to central Saskatchewan . It is one of two ___MASK19___ rivers that join to make up the Saskatchewan River . Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade Dinosauria that first appeared during the Triassic . Although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject of active ___MASK59___ , the current scientific consensus places their origin between 231 and 243 million years ago . They became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates after the Triassic  Jurassic extinction event 201 million years ago . Their dominance continued through the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and ended when the Cretaceous  Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of most dinosaur groups 66 million years ago .