Support growing to save Drumhellers beloved dinosaur Tyra [Video]

A plan to send Tyra the tyrannosaurus, the popular tourist attraction that towers over the skyline in Drumheller, Alta., into proverbial extinction has sparked demands that she be spared.

The town of 8,400 northeast of Calgary bills itself as the Dinosaur Capital of the World.

Home to the famed Royal Tyrrell Museum that contains one of the world’s largest exhibits of dinosaurs, Drumheller also has statues of dinosaurs that look like they’ve crawled out of “The Flintstones” cartoon greeting people on the streets.

There’s an extinct reptile riding a motorcycle,  a triceratops in a frilly dress sits on a bus bench and another dinosaur wearing a fireman’s hat and holding a hose is poised outside a fire station.

The biggest is Tyra, standing across from the intersection of Gorgosaurus Street and Tyrannosaurus Drive near a visitor information centre.

A nearby ice cream stand offers fossils, T-shirts and dino toys.

The 25-metre-high figure, four …