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posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 15 2017, @12:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the This-is-what-112-million-years-old-looks-like dept.

National Geographic reports (javascript required to view photos) on a nodosaur fossil in Alberta. Nodosaurs were herbivorous, armoured dinosaurs which inhabited North America and Europe. This example represents a previously unknown species. Soft tissues such as its skin were preserved by what is believed to have been "rapid undersea burial." The fossil is thought to be about 110 to 112 million years old. It features "two 20-inch-long spikes jutting out of its shoulders."

According to the CBC,

It's on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology's new exhibit, Grounds for Discovery.

The museum is in Drumheller, Alberta (nicknamed "Dinosaur Capital of the World").

Also according to the CBC, the fossil was discovered in 2011 at an oil sands mine near Fort McMurray.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @07:03PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @07:03PM (#510181)

    Wow. This amazing. Hopefully we will get digital or other storage that will so easily be diciphered as an efficicient mp3 decoding algorithem a few (hopefully not fukushima-chernobyl) thousand years in the future.
    Me, petsonally, i think dinosaurs died a collective death to spit the digital human concret economy to say that bones matter more then all technological advances...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @09:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @09:02PM (#510232)

    Me, petsonally, i think dinosaurs died a collective death to spit the digital human concret economy to say that bones matter more then all technological advances...

    You should email this theory to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.