T. K. Arispe

 

At the last Fossil Friday of 2025 a few weeks ago, we had a great presentation on dinosaurs of Canada, and Ashley and MaggieJo were talking about Albertavenator, a troodontid from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation that's only known from fragmentary fossils. They showed a very nice piece of paleoart that reconstructed it colored like a blue jay, which made me picture Albertavenator perching on a head like grey jays (sometimes called Canada jays here in the US) are notorious for doing. When I told them that, they said they wanted to see it. I wanted to see it too, so here we are.

This Albertavenator is perching on Edmontosaurus regalis, one of the largest animals at Horseshoe Canyon. Hadrosaurs probably made good perches, in all honesty.