Alberta construction crew finds fossilized remains of another hadrosaur
Museum curator Francois Therrien said this dinosaur was a teenager when it died and is about eight-metres-long. He said the fact that much of the skeleton was found intact makes it an important find — no bones about it.
"When you walk in the badlands of southern Alberta when you find dinosaur bones, nine times out of 10 it will be from a duck-billed dinosaur," he said Wednesday.
"But in terms of finding a complete skeleton — all the bones connected the way they were in life — that is really a rare discovery."
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Fossils from an approximately 73-million-year-old hadrosaur is pictured in a recent photo in Tumbler Ridfge, B.C. [Credit: Richard McCrea /The Canadian Press] |
Last month a pipeline crew in northwestern Alberta uncovered the fossils of a larger and older hadrosaur, a dinosaur that was almost as common during the Cretaceous era as deer are today.
Hadrosaurs roamed over much of western North America and grew up to 12 metres long. The fossils are to be stored at the museum in Drumheller, Alta., for further study.
"It has been an incredible year for dinosaur finds," said Andrew Neuman, executive director of the museum. This surge in fossil finds has supplemented our own work this field season due in part to increased awareness and diligence among industry and keen-eyed amateurs."
Source: The Canadian Press [November 06, 2013]
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