This picture of a piece of the Badlands offers a sense of not only the textures of sand dunes sculpted by wind and time but also the contrast between modern and prehistoric times.

The small stretch of sky at the top subtly reveals the flat lands above the sunken dunes and valleys that have been shaped and landscaped by humans. If you look closely, you can see human-made tower trees planted along farmers' roadways, hinting at a lifestyle remarkably contrastive to that of the Brontosaurus and Pachycephalosaurus (pronounce that one if you can!) that had absolutely no sense of the puny animals that would not only be replacing them, but studying them and digging up their bones.

No wonder the Drumheller Badlands are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.