110 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur ‘Mummy” Has Been Just Discovered By Mine Workers In Canada
Scientists are celebrating after the discovery of what could be the best-preserved armored dinosaur type specimen ever found. Known as nodosaur, it’s around 110 million-year-old.
Back in 2011, a heavy equipment operator by the name of Shawn Funk, who works for energy company Suncor in Alberta, was drilling crude oil sands when he suddenly discovered brown rocks that looked like ribs. “It was nothing we had ever seen before,” said Funk in a 2011 interview. The man didn’t yet know that he had just discovered a dinosaur fossil.
Nearly six years later, one can finally see the cool dinosaur at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Scientists say a significant amount of the real dinosaur fossil’s ‘skin’ and “armor, complete from the snout to hips” was intact.
“We don’t just have some dinosaur bones,” Caleb Brown, a researcher at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, told National Geographic. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.” The dinosaur is so well preserved as it “may have been swept away by a flooded river and carried out to sea, where it eventually sank. Over millions of years on the ocean floor, minerals took the place of the dinosaur’s armor and skin, preserving ancient history in the lifelike form now on display.”
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Scientists are celebrating after the discovery of what could possibly be the best-preserved armoured dinosaur specimen ever found
Known as nodosaur, it’s around 110 million-year-old
It was discovered back in 2011 by a Canadian heavy equipment operator when drilling for crude oil
“We don’t just have a skeleton… We have a dinosaur as it would have been”
It “may have been swept away by a flooded river and carried out to sea, where it eventually sank” to be so incredibly well preserved
This is a replica of how nodosaurs must have looked
Image credits: Herschel Hoffmeyer
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Share on FacebookThank you for this informative , interesting , look at nodosaurs. It is hard to wrap my head around that it was alive 110 million years ago !
Ah I see not in the bible Luke lol omg open your eyes this is proof that the book you worship is just that a book you weren't around 2000 years ago either same thing. So science is s**t then omg how nieve
Load More Replies...Just think, if it had feathers, they could have named it a 'Bob Bakersaurus'. :D
Here, Ussf Vet: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/dinosaur-bone-age.htm
Load More Replies...I don't think the drawing looks anything like the dinosaur. Cool find.
By the way, the picture does not include the other thing they found, which is doing science stuff.( No idea what its called) they found out it is a nice red. Screenshot...ac-png.jpg
Dear creationists: Google is your friend. Instead of asking people in the comments about science how about you look it up yourselves.
I mean, it hasn't "just" been discovered - unless you mean "just" discovered in this months NatGeo magasine ;)
This is so amazing! I'm in awe right now. I cannot imagine the excitement when this was found. I'm excited just reading about it from a computer screen.
It's about to get Jurassic park in here oh god awesome though hope they find a carnivore
Sad Fact: Did you know that most of Jurassic park's carnivores are inaccurate.
Load More Replies...What are you talking about?? Plants were producing tons of oxygen and reptiles don't breathe nitrogen. It was plant life, creating oxygen, that enabled the large animate lifeforms to exist.
Load More Replies...Thank you for this informative , interesting , look at nodosaurs. It is hard to wrap my head around that it was alive 110 million years ago !
Ah I see not in the bible Luke lol omg open your eyes this is proof that the book you worship is just that a book you weren't around 2000 years ago either same thing. So science is s**t then omg how nieve
Load More Replies...Just think, if it had feathers, they could have named it a 'Bob Bakersaurus'. :D
Here, Ussf Vet: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/dinosaur-bone-age.htm
Load More Replies...I don't think the drawing looks anything like the dinosaur. Cool find.
By the way, the picture does not include the other thing they found, which is doing science stuff.( No idea what its called) they found out it is a nice red. Screenshot...ac-png.jpg
Dear creationists: Google is your friend. Instead of asking people in the comments about science how about you look it up yourselves.
I mean, it hasn't "just" been discovered - unless you mean "just" discovered in this months NatGeo magasine ;)
This is so amazing! I'm in awe right now. I cannot imagine the excitement when this was found. I'm excited just reading about it from a computer screen.
It's about to get Jurassic park in here oh god awesome though hope they find a carnivore
Sad Fact: Did you know that most of Jurassic park's carnivores are inaccurate.
Load More Replies...What are you talking about?? Plants were producing tons of oxygen and reptiles don't breathe nitrogen. It was plant life, creating oxygen, that enabled the large animate lifeforms to exist.
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