Badlands

An almost perfectly preserved nodosaur fossil was discovered in the Albertan badlands.

During the season, interns, seasonal rangers, and park paleontologists walk all corners of the park to find fossils coming out of the badlands.

The sun and clouds create a shifting color palette on the badlands landscape.

Not only do the Bad Lands present a most attractive field to the student of erosion and of the origin of earth forms, but their deathlike solitudes have been made to yield the most wonderful procession of strange extinct animals yet unearthed by geologists.

No one has ever described better the shaggy badlands and cabbage-patches round the edges of a city, where the debris of civilization piles up ramshackle suburbs in which starve and scheme all manner of human detritus.