Starting as just an idea back in 2004, Dino Lab Inc has slowly evolved over the years into a 3-part business: a working prep lab restoring some of the world’s rarest fossils, an educational destination for learning about (and touching!) fossils, and a gift shop filled with specimens, gems, science kits, and gifts for kids (small and adult-sized).
Beginning as a wholesaler of fossils to museums, galleries, and collectors, we found that many of our pieces required some extra care to look their best (they rarely come out of the ground completely intact). Fast forward over a decade of honing our skills and becoming fossil restoration experts, our friends and family urged us to open our doors to the public after getting a private tour themselves.
So here we are.
(Thanks, friends and family, for your encouragement and persistence.)
To do what we do, we have to have a team that’s at the top of their field. Below are those people. If we had a megaphone we’d be yelling at the top of our lungs about how much we appreciate them.
Alas, this is the internet so bolded text, a photo shoot, and witty captions will have to do.
Thanks, team.
Favourite dinosaurs:
Tyrannosaurus rex, Pachycephalosaurus, & Stegosaurus
Fun fact:
has spent the past 20 years in the fossil industry
Favourite fossil specimen:
Ichthyosaur
Loves:
Travelling! She has lived and travelled all over the world. (By the age of 17 she had attended 16 different schools.)
Favourite dinosaur:
Othnielosaurus
Fun fact:
at 19 years old, ran on foot from Canada to Mexico
Favourite dinosaur:
Stegosaurus & Kentrosaurus Fun Fact:
started collecting fossils 40 years ago
Favourite dinosaur:
Zephyrosaurus
Fun fact:
sailed on the first Canadian Patrol Frigate to circumnavigate the world
Favourite dinosaur:
Deinonychus
Fun fact:
served 23 years in the Canadian Military
Favourite dinosaur:
Allosaurus
Loves:
getting to handle and clean the fossils
Loveable trait:
he's terrified of flies
