Choose an animal to be your guide, on a journey to greater understanding.
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Get to Know the Animals.
All of these animals roamed here at one time. Some are dinosaurs and mega-fauna, long extinct. Some are alive and well in Canada now. Some are portrayed in disguise. The neighborhood was different when they lived here. These are a few of the things that they saw:
The ancient mega-volcanoes of Pangaea. Bubbling swamps, giant bugs and strange ferns.
A blue sea bobbing with icebergs in all directions, in place of this grass and those buildings and trees.
A dry, barren tundra. Woolly Mammoth, Elk and Caribou, trundling North. Beavers that were as big as bears. Bears that were even bigger.
Sensational costumes, which some of them wore, on maps that said here be dragons.
They are dragons, lions, bears and sea monsters, the usual suspects in the greatest bedtime stories of all time. They have many names in many languages. They’ve made cameos as constellations that might be older than writing, older than the first cities, or the wheel. Some are mythological, some are just misunderstood. They invite you to explore the cosmos starting right here, on a journey to greater understanding. Let’s go!
