DRUMHELLER, Alta. – Staff at southern Alberta’s world-renowned dinosaur museum have collected the remains of a rare prehistoric creature practically on their doorstep.
    
The Royal Tyrrell Museum says a former employee spotted the bones earlier this summer of a Triceratops _ just 30 minutes east of the Drumheller museum.
    
The bones of the triple-horned dinosaur that roamed 65 million years ago had become exposed through erosion.
    
A team from the museum worked for 12 days and uncovered a large pile of vertebrae, ribs and other bones.
    
Triceratops remains are common in Saskatchewan and Montana, but are rarely found in Alberta.
    
Curator Francois Therrien (TARE’-ee-ihn) says the find means the museum now has the remains of a single Triceratops to study rather than just fragments from other discoveries.