Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre

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The CFDC is home to thousands of marine fossil specimens in one of the biggest collections of marine reptiles in the world, including Bruce, the Guinness World Record to the biggest Mosasaur in display. Visit our Online Gift-Shop at www.discoverfossils.com/shop/
Take a look to our Public Collections Management Software to learn more about our fossils https://discoverfossils.skin-web.org/

Our firm commitment to improve the technology applied to palaeontological research is bringing spectacular results.We ar...
06/16/2026

Our firm commitment to improve the technology applied to palaeontological research is bringing spectacular results.
We are digitally mapping all our dig sites with the Robotic Total Station and georeferencing every dig site or isolated fossil find with RTK-GPS units with a maximum error of only 23 milimetres.
Not only this work brings accuracy to our data collecting system but open an unique opportunity for our Palaeontology summer students to learn how to use those devices.
Big thanks to the Government of Manitoba and the Morden Area Foundation for financing those acquisitions.

The Styxosaurus exhibit, our very first whole display created with 3D technology, is moving forward according to our pla...
06/05/2026

The Styxosaurus exhibit, our very first whole display created with 3D technology, is moving forward according to our plans.
This exhibit not only challenges the limit of what is possible to build at our lab, but also what is possible to assemble and display at our current facility!

Our fossil collections started to be created in the very early 70's, when there were (finally) people recognizing the im...
06/03/2026

Our fossil collections started to be created in the very early 70's, when there were (finally) people recognizing the importance of those fossils.
But the history of "shocking" fossil findings goes back to the early 40's, when the Bentonite mining begun in an industrial way and millions of tones of shale containing incredible and fascinating articulated skeletons started to be scrapped and bulldozed.
Thousands of fossils were salvaged during the last 17 years of Bentonite Mining at the Manitoba Escarpment between 1971 and 1988, but many more were lost forever within the 30 years gap between 1940 and 1970.
This newspaper cut is just a "painful" example, dated on October 15th, 1958: an articulated skeleton of a long neck plesiosaur, likely a Styxosaurus looking at the dorsal vertebra at the left-bottom of the photo. The final fate of this specimen is unknown.
Thanks to Darryl R. Toews for finding these news.

We just change our daily opening hours to summer season!We open from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm from Monday to Friday and from ...
06/01/2026

We just change our daily opening hours to summer season!
We open from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm from Monday to Friday and from Noon to 6:00 pm on weekends and Statutory Holidays.

Did you know that our Centre was born with a different name?The Morden & District Museum was incorporated in 1971, initi...
05/26/2026

Did you know that our Centre was born with a different name?
The Morden & District Museum was incorporated in 1971, initially curating fossils colected in the Morden area but also pioneer and historic artifacts.
In 2004, the historic artifacts were donated to other regional historical museums and the corporation changed its name to Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre, with the solely purpose of preserving, researching, and displaying the fossil heritage.
Currently, our Centre is the only Museum in Manitoba preserving and displaying uniquely non "human-made artifacts".
This is an original brochure from the mid 80's, after the Centre built and moved to the current location, still containing historic artifacts.

Do you need a plan for this rainy Saturday? Come to Morden with a double plan, the Morden's Pop Culture Expo and the Can...
05/23/2026

Do you need a plan for this rainy Saturday? Come to Morden with a double plan, the Morden's Pop Culture Expo and the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre, all together without even getting out of the building. There are even food trucks just at the door!!

Come to visit us this weekend and see what's new in our Galleries. Some 20ft monster is rivaling Bruce in our Mosasaur H...
05/22/2026

Come to visit us this weekend and see what's new in our Galleries. Some 20ft monster is rivaling Bruce in our Mosasaur Hall.

We are hosting today the Central Region Museums Musings Annual Meeting in collaboration with the Manitoba Baseball Hall ...
05/13/2026

We are hosting today the Central Region Museums Musings Annual Meeting in collaboration with the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame and the Province of Manitoba. 36 Directors from all the Museums in the Region are sharing their challenges and successes during the year.

Digging season is here!!
05/12/2026

Digging season is here!!

Roughly 66.04 million years ago, an enormous asteroid hit the Earth. The Chicxulub asteroid was a ~10-15 km wide object ...
05/10/2026

Roughly 66.04 million years ago, an enormous asteroid hit the Earth. The Chicxulub asteroid was a ~10-15 km wide object that struck Earth in modern-day Mexico, causing the extinction of 75% of all species, including non-avian dinosaurs, and all the giant marine reptiles that were the dominant predators of the oceans for millions of years.
None of the species we host at the Centre's fossil collections exists today because of this extinction event.
In many places around the world, the same thin layer can be found where sediments were deposited right after that impact and the hours that followed.
This layer, known as the K-Pg Boundary, marks the end of the Cretaceous Period and the beggining of the Palaeogene Period.
We were visiting one of those places last week during one of the field trips with the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology. This site is located an hour-drive north of Drumheller (Alberta) at Dry Island.
It is not difficult to distinguish three different sub-layers in this boundary.
The lower one is composed by carbonized material originated when the first wave of energy hit all the exposed living beings.
The middle one has quartz and glass microtektites formed by the intense impact heat and pressure and rapid cooling after those particles were projected to the atmosphere and started to fall in the first few minutes and hours after the impact.
The upper one has high content of ash and radioactive Iridium. Iridium is not found on the Earth’s surface, so whenever it is present in the rock record, scientists know it came from outer space.
Big thanks to Dr. Francois Therrien, Curator at the Royal Tyrrel Museum of Palaeontology for leading this amazing hike!!

Address

111 Gilmour Street
Morden, MB
R6M1N9

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm

Telephone

2048223406

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