Prehistoric plant-eating dinosaurs like iguanodons and hadrosaurs were common in the Tumbler Ridge area when it was once the shoreline of an inland sea. The Shipyard-Titanic Trail at the base of Babcock Mountain near Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is a popular destination for hikers and scientists visiting the region. (Tumbler Ridge UNESCO Global Geopark)As one of five geoparks in Canada, Tumbler Ridge has been evolving from its industrial beginnings in the 1980s as a publicly-planned coal mining town, into a growing hub of paleontology research and tourism. Eamon Drysdale, curator and resident paleontologist at the Tumbler Ridge Museum, holds the fossil of a 76-million-year-old tyrannosaur known as a the Gorgosaurus. Both are on display at the Tumbler Ridge Museum, home to nearly 4,000 fossils.