Posted on 07/13/2024 6:55:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In 2011, archaeologists uncovered one of the most — if not the most — pristine dinosaur fossils yet: a near-whole ankylosaur, complete with its jagged spikes, most of its limbs, armor coating, and some of its guts and stomach contents. The most amazing detail, though? Its uncannily preserved face and skin.
It took Mark Mitchell, a technician at Royal Tyrell Museum, an absurd 7,000 hours and nearly six years to meticulously exhume the fossil by delicately chipping away at the surrounding stone. For his efforts, he had the newly discovered specie of nodosaur — a type of ankylosaur — named after him: Borealopelta markmitchelli...
Researchers were able to get their hands on the remarkable specimen in 2017 after Mitchell had finished preparing it, and they’ve since published a series of impressive studies.
One such study led by Caleb Brown, a curator at Royal Tyrell, examined the bone structure known as osteoderms found on ankylosaurs, which in less freakishly preserved specimens, usually fall out of place.
(Excerpt) Read more at organicallyhuman.com ...
I watched a show about this earlier in the week.
Can’t recall which app.
Took me some clickin’ to find out...
“Suncor, a mine in the northeast of Alberta, Canada.”
Land of the lost is on Roku now.
Good corny fun.
😳
Bkmk
Thank you.
If I had known you were coming to Alberta, I would have rolled out the welcome mat.
It was found in Fort MacMurray, while they were digging up oil sands and brought to be examined in 2011.
We’re slipping. Usually she makes it in the first 5 posts.
Canada where the museum is located?
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About 100 miles northeast of Calgary. Fantastic place....
This might be the fossil that showed that this herbivore was pursued by carnivores. Uhh, d’oh. But, no evidence before this.
It shows that the skin on top was darker than skin on belly. This is a characteristic of all hunted animals — the difference in shading sorta breaks up the profile outline to a carnivore. Animals that aren’t so hunted are the same shade all over — see elephants, rhinos, etc.
LOL!
I don’t see the difficulty of finding one. If you want to find another one look at Jupiter Island in Florida.
wy69
Thanks for waiting as long as you did.
Well dang! I was hoping to get in a “post” before that shot!
That’s quite the gray beard. It must have been a wizasoarus.
looking at that skin, I can imagine looking at a dragon.
Visible fossils led to myths about cyclops, dragons, giants, etc.
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