(Centrosaurus; Credit: Nobu Tamura)
Posted on 06/25/2010 7:40:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The world's largest dinosaur graveyard has been discovered in Alberta, Canada, according to David Eberth of the Royal Tyrrell Museum and other scientists working on the project.
The Vancouver Sun reports that the massive dinosaur bonebed is 1.43-square miles in size. Eberth says it contains thousands of bones belonging to the dinosaur Centrosaurus, which once lived near what is now the Saskatchewan border.
Centrosaurus was a plant-eating, cow-sized dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, around 75 million years ago. It cut quite a figure back then, with its top-of-the-head frills and rhino-like nose horn. There is some evidence that it engaged in horn to horn combat among its own species, probably males fighting over mates.
The impressive jaw muscles of Centrosaurus allowed it to sheer through extremely tough foliage with ease...
A journal paper outlining details about it is expected later this month.
Alberta has yielded many well-preserved dinosaur remains in the past, but paleontologists have never quite been sure why. It's hoped that this latest find may help to clarify what geological conditions, or series of events, help to produce such pristine fossils.
When Centrosaurus was alive, Alberta was a balmy tropical area along a coast. Dinosaurs are often found in such places. Can you blame them? Good weather, nice scenery, plentiful water and good eats were the primary draws.
There was, however, trouble in paradise, since every so often horrible tropical storms wiped out large numbers of dinosaurs, other animals, and plants. After the deaths, there is new evidence that mammals would come to check out the carnage and gnaw on the bones.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
(Centrosaurus; Credit: Nobu Tamura)
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The trouble in paradise came when the French Canadians invaded that area.
Feed the editor to the velociraptors.
Penisourassrex?
Excellent!
Did they serve Centrosaurus with white or red?
Shear incompetence on his part.
What do you expect from someone who works for the dinosaur media?
Ahhh.... back when Canada was an equatorial region, and North America was the bottom of an ocean.
Spelling police. Please pull over.
The correct word would be 'sheer'.
Shear means to 'cut' or 'slice'.
Thank you, you may be on your way now.
"Dino-mite!"
Is this the first dinosaur known to have cared about “nice scenery” or has that been established for other species of dinosaurs? Amazing what paleontologists can deduce from bones.
My misspelling was a take-off on that of the editor.
Centrosaurus - served hot, with fava beans and a chilled Merlot.
From the cookbook, “Serving Dinosaurs” by Hannibal Lechter, the world famous author of “To Serve Man”.
I knew somebody was going to do that...
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