Canada Post has come out with a new set of dinosaur stamps, with two of them featuring Alberta dinosaurs.

Jim Phillips, the Director of Stamp Services with Canada Post says the series is called "Dino's of Canada."

"It's actually part two, we launched one last year. This a completely different design. This is kind of looking through the eye of the dinosaur. And you're not sure if it's a predator or a prey, each one is a little different. So it's a dinosaur as seen through the eye of another dinosaur so it's very interesting in that sense."

The creatures’ fossils were found across Canada and represent vastly different geological times.

The animals were chosen with the help of the Canadian Museum of Nature, which assisted in the development of the 2015 series.

They are:

·         Acrotholus audeti – This small dinosaur possessed a skull bearing a 10-centimeter thick dome of solid bone over the eyes. The bipedal herbivore may have used the dome to butt heads with other members of its species. It inhabited the then coastal lowlands of Alberta about 85 million years ago.

·         Comox Valley elasmosaur (this fossil has not yet been given a scientific name) – The vicious marine reptile had a neck nearly seven metres long that helped it hunt its prey 83 million years ago. It was discovered in 1988 by a father and his 12-year-old daughter prospecting for fossils in the Comox Valley.

·         Cypretherium coarctatum – One of a group of mammals commonly known as “terminator pigs,” this fearsome beast had a long, narrow snout with menacing pointed teeth at the front. It lived on the ancient floodplains of Saskatchewan 35 million years ago.

·         Dimetrodon borealis – Heralded upon its discovery as Canada’s first dinosaur, paleontologists later came to realize it was a mammal-like reptile. Its fearsome jaws were filled with serrated teeth and it likely used a sail on its back for display. It lived in what is now Prince Edward Island about 270 million years ago in, when it was hot and dry and located near the Equator.

·         Troodon inequalis – The bird-like dinosaur was similar to the carnivorous Velociraptor of Jurassic Park movie fame. It had the largest brain of any dinosaur in relation to its body size and was a resident of Alberta’s coastal lowlands about 75 million years ago.

Phillips says you can pick up the stamps in books, or in other collectable formats at any Canada Post Office.