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/

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!!

Together with Pembina Valley Online, we are auctioning Dig Fossil Adventure Tours. Do not miss the opportunity to discov...
05/08/2026

Together with Pembina Valley Online, we are auctioning Dig Fossil Adventure Tours.
Do not miss the opportunity to discover a new fantastic fossil creature buried for millions of years!!

Bruno Costa, our MiTACS Palaeontologist, presented today our "Dave" the filter feeder shark at the CSVP Annual Meeting a...
05/03/2026

Bruno Costa, our MiTACS Palaeontologist, presented today our "Dave" the filter feeder shark at the CSVP Annual Meeting at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller. This was just a small hint about what will come very soon with this unique and enigmatic specimen.

Today the Palaeontologist Amy Cameron from the University of Alberta did a presentation at the CSVP Annual Meeting in Dr...
05/02/2026

Today the Palaeontologist Amy Cameron from the University of Alberta did a presentation at the CSVP Annual Meeting in Drumheller about one of the rare and unique fossils from our Collections, a juvenile mosasaur Plioplatecarpus which gives information about the changing anatomy until becoming an adult individual.

Clash of Titans!!This had to happen earlier than later. The two dominant predators of the Late Cretaceous face to face.T...
05/02/2026

Clash of Titans!!
This had to happen earlier than later.
The two dominant predators of the Late Cretaceous face to face.
The Tylosaurus had no rival in the Cretaceous seas neither had the Albertosaurus in land in what Canada is today.
The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre is attending the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller with several scientific presentations of the unique fossil specimens hosted at our Collections.

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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

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2048223406

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