Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Kevin Doherty applauded the official return of Scotty to the T.rex Discovery Centre in Eastend. The dinosaur's massive skeleton now dominates the centre's gallery space, greeting and inviting visitors to learn about Saskatchewan's paleontological heritage.
"After years of hard work by Royal Saskatchewan Museum staff and dedicated volunteers to recover the fossils and painstakingly separate them from the hard rock in which they were encased, we now have this magnificent asset for the province," Doherty said. "This exhibit will be an exciting new tourism attraction for the area and the province, an educational resource for teachers, and a tool for on-going research."
The first pieces of Scotty were discovered in 1991 in the Frenchman River Valley near Eastend. It is the first T.rex skeleton found in Saskatchewan and one of the most complete in the world. Research Casting International from Trenton, Ontario created the unique one-footed standing mount by casting exact replicas of each of the original bones. The skeleton is approximately six metres tall and more than 12 metres long, with a massive skull approaching two metres in length.
The T.rex Discovery Centre, which opened in 2000, was created to showcase the area's rich palaeontological history. Last month, the centre and the ministry announced that they had reached an agreement in principle under which the RSM will assume ongoing operation of the centre.
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