Thousands of Heavy Dinosaurs Packed Together in Extensive Bone Bed

One of the largest dinosaur
graveyards in Canada defies
uniformitarian explanations

 

They call it a “River of Death,” but no ordinary river could cause what paleontologists found in Alberta. A field paleontologist on the dig says, “It’s jaw dropping in terms of its density.” And this is not the only location like this, as visitors to Dinosaur National Monument know.

Solving the mystery of a dinosaur mass grave at the ‘River of Death’ (BBC News, 19 May 2025). The information in this report is startling—almost beyond belief. What force would bury thousands of large, two-ton dinosaurs and pack their bones together in rock just inches apart over an area of several kilometers? Read with astonishment:

Hidden beneath the slopes of a lush forest in Alberta, Canada, is a mass grave on a monumental scale.

Thousands of dinosaurs were buried here, killed in an instant on a day of utter devastation.

Now, a group of palaeontologists have come to Pipestone Creek – appropriately nicknamed the “River of Death” – to help solve a 72-million-year-old enigma: how did they die?

Most of the ones at Pipestone Creek are related to Triceratops, a variety called Pachyrhinosaur with three horns extending from a frill. These individuals each weighed two tons at adult size. Could a river ever collect, demolish and pack the parts from thousands of army tanks?

Emily Bamforth is using hammers, chisels and brushes to carefully extract bones from a small portion of the site. A video clip shows her at work.

The fossils in the small patch of ground that the team are working on are incredibly tightly packed; Prof Bamforth estimates there are up to 300 bones in every square metre.

So far, her team has excavated an area the size of a tennis court, but the bed of bones extends for a kilometre into the hillside.

“It’s jaw dropping in terms of its density,” she tells us.

“It is, we believe, one of the largest bone beds in North America.

And it’s not the only one. The Dinosaur Quarry in the Utah portion of Dinosaur National Monument displays a large wall of densely packed dinosaur bones, all disarticulated and strewn randomly into the rock. Visitors watch as scientists painstakingly extract bones for study from the slanted wall.

Another Pachyrhinosaurus bone bed is found along Colville River, on the north slope of Alaska. At Pipestone Creek, bones are found of young and old individuals, all buried together.

The Uniformitarian View

Bamforth gives the moyboy view of what might have happened:

“We believe that this was a herd on a seasonal migration that got tangled up in some catastrophic event that effectively wiped out, if not the entire herd, then a good proportion of it,” Prof Bamforth says.

Emphasis on we believe. This view will be the customary story told on a new animated episode of Walking with Dinosaurs being presented by the BBC.

All the evidence suggests that this catastrophic event was a flash flood – perhaps a storm over the mountains that sent an unstoppable torrent of water towards the herd, ripping trees from their roots and shifting boulders.

But did this happen similarly in other places as far away as Utah and Alaska? There seems to be a common thread in the evidence from these widely-scattered locations: “flash floods” more energetic and catastrophic than anything we see today.

An Alternative View

These dinosaur bone beds are well known to the Creation Science Association of Alberta, led by Dr. Margaret Helder, who knows all about Pachyrhinosaurs. She notes, “These very heavy solid four footed creatures would not easily be pushed off their feet and drowned in a river.”

The Creation Science Association of Alberta has written a tour guide to the Royal Tyrrell Museum, giving visitors an alternative to the Darwinian slow-and-gradual picture of earth history. One section says,

If ever there was evidence of catastrophic events, it is certainly to be found in bone beds of dinosaurs, some beds of which stretch for many kilometres and may include hundreds or even thousands of individuals. Among well-known dinosaur bone beds are the Centrosaurus  bone bed in Dinosaur Provincial Park, the Edmontosaurus bone bed along the north slope of Alaska and the Pachyrhinosaurus bone bed from Pipestone Creek near Grande Prairie, Alberta.

There is another Edmontosaurus bone bed inside the city limits of Edmonton too, Dr Helder adds.

These locations are all interesting and informative, but the Pachyrhinosaurus bone bed is particularly remarkable. The bones are deposited in a thin 25 cm or so layer located in the bank of the Pipestone Creek in northwestern Alberta. However the density of bones in this bed is incredible, about 150 or more bones packed per square metre!

The museum’s own official children’s booklet on the site contains more jaw-dropping detail:

There were more bones than rock. The bones were so tangled the technicians could not remove one bone without excavating a dozen others overlapping and wrapping around it. And each of those dozen bones twined around another dozen bones.

No river flood in historic times can match what happened here. If a herd of wildebeest or elephants today were swept down a river, wouldn’t their bodies remain largely intact? And wouldn’t burrowing animals eventually reach the decaying carcasses and destroy them? Even whale carcasses are dismantled by burrowing worms on the seafloor. Why don’t we find shallow graveyards of thousands of disarticulated elephants densely packed in rock extending for miles?

The force necessary to sweep heavy animals off their feet and bury young and old together seems unprecedented in human history. It had to be a force strong enough to rip the animals apart, separate their bones, and then quickly bury them under deep loads of sediment.

No human was there to observe specifically what happened, but we have an Eyewitness account of the Great Flood of Noah’s day. It had the energy to capture, transport, disembowel and bury the scattered bones of animals this large and heavy, and bury them deeply under thousands of feet of sediment. Ockham’s Razor should favor a single high-energy event that caused all the dinosaur graveyards in a short time rather than multiple catastrophes doing it over and over again in widely-scattered locations.

Unfortunately, that alternative is routinely censored by the Darwin establishment. No matter the evidence, they come to it with uniformitarian glasses on, interpreting everything as the result of present-day processes occurring in the hidden past. Who do you want to believe? Their story, or your lyin’ eyes? Don’t lionize Charlie & Charlie.*
*Lyell, Darwin