LAST ISSUE’S OBJECT: Albertosaurus sarcophagus tooth

Albertosaurus was a large predatory dinosaur that roamed southern Alberta 70 million years ago. The creature’s fossilized remains, including its razor-sharp teeth, are found throughout the province’s badlands. The serrations on these teeth look and feel like the blade of a steak knife. A geologically older and smaller relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, the first Albertosaurus skull was found by J.B. Tyrrell in 1884, not far from where the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is today.