‘Beautiful’ dinosaur fossil unearthed near Spirit River

Edmonton Journal ^ | October 2, 2013 | Marty Klinkenberg

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EDMONTON - Experts are calling a dinosaur fossil unearthed in northern Alberta this week one of the “most complete finds in this part of the world in a long time.”

Brian Brake, executive director of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, said the fossilized remains of a hadrosaur were discovered at an energy company’s work site near Spirit River.

Officials from the pipeline firm contacted the museum, which sent paleontologists to assess the find.

“What we have is a totally composed tail,” Brake said. “It’s beautiful.”

The Currie Museum contacted its counterparts at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, which sent a team to the work site on Wednesday.

The paleontologists will attempt to carefully remove the fossil from the work site as soon as possible, taking it to either the Tyrrell Museum or to the University of Alberta.

The portion of the tail is about three metres long and the bones along its tail can be easily seen. The hadrosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur with a bill that resembled a duck’s, was probably 10 to 15 metres long, Brake said. They existed during the Upper Cretaceous Period.

[bert]

Creo’s won’t like or understand it, but the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller is the best in the world. If you are in Alberta, a trip is very worth while.

In addition to dinosaurs, it has a fantastic exhibit of Burgess Shale fossils and info

[bert]

She’s dead Gibbs

[Sybeck1]

All of His creation is beautiful.

[b4its2late]

LOL.. Sorry but it was too tempting.....

[b4its2late]

Yes, she was.

[laplata]

If she hadn’t been such a vile, old liberal, one could pity her looks. Her outside was prettier than her inside.

[b4its2late]

I couldn’t resist. Sorry but I was LMAO when I saw it post.

[b4its2late]

I know, I know. But with all the hoopla in DC, and because she was a fossil in her own right (or left as it may be), I couldn’t resist, plus I LMAO thinking about all the replies I would get.

[b4its2late]

I couldn’t resist. I am evil, I know, but that goes way back to the little devil in me....

[b4its2late]

Ok, I won’t though I do have one of her portrayed as 72 virgins, oh glorious jihad!

[b4its2late]

Yes, yes... And I thought I’d be the second or third one in! LOL.

[b4its2late]

I apologize... but I did LMAO after thinking about all the replies I would get!

[b4its2late]

That she is....

[b4its2late]

Ouch, but yes, I couldn’t agree more.

[longfellow]

YOU BASTARD! A WARNING NEXT TIME!

[b4its2late]

Ooooops! I’ll try!

[KittenClaws]

Yea, I was scrolling down expecting to see this beautiful specimen of a dinosaur.

Well, you got the dinosaur right. ;-)

[Axenolith]

It looks like they are removing that from soil, or very poorly indurated sedimentary rock, unless it’s a piece of float in the surrounding soil/regolith matrix from glacial movement.

If it’s in soil or poorly indurated rock that will be a young earther’s dream fossil...

[longfellow]

;)

[Windflier]

Posting pics of Helen Thomas ought to be a zotting offense at this point. Enough...