’Our story is incomplete’: Famed dino hunter reflects on the history of paleontology

The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is marking its 10-year anniversary next year by exhibiting its recent and largest discovery in northern Alberta so far — the skull of a pachyrhinosaurous

EDMONTON — Canada’s famed dinosaur hunter and one of the inspirations for the “Jurassic Park” phenomenon turned 75 earlier this year and has no plans to drop his chisel and rock hammer.

Philip Currie says he’ll keep digging until he’s one with the fossils he has spent his life unearthing.

“I decided when I was about 40 or 50 that I was going to continue until, suddenly one day in the (Alberta) Badlands, I would go poof and I’d be gone,” Currie said in an interview ahead of the museum that’s named after him celebrating its 10th anniversary.