The 110 million-year-old dinosaur fossil intact as alive

When dinosaur fossils were discovered, they all looked like ordinary stones. But this time it is different, with a newly discovered Nodosauridae dinosaur fossil, we not only have bones but also a dinosaur that is 5.4 m long and weighs about 1,360 kg with a 110 million year old date. .

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On May 12, this special dinosaur fossil was introduced at the Tyrrell Paleontological Royal Museum in Canada. Many people were surprised to see it, the fossils looked like a statue because it was well preserved.

This dinosaur fossil was discovered by Shawn Funk a miner while digging in Alberta's Millennium Valley with a crane on March 21, 2011. Funk saw something that didn't look like anything. what kind of stone you have seen. As soon as they were transferred to the Alberta museum, the experts were extremely surprised and convinced that a Plesiosaur was actually in front of their eyes.

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More specifically, it is the outer shell of a Nodosaur, belonging to the Ankylosauria family of dinosaurs living in the Cretaceous period. This dinosaur species feeds on plants, walks on all fours, a pair of 50 cm long horns on the shoulders, a hard and heavy outer shell. They do not have the bones at the end of the tail (also called the mace tail), instead they are thick armor plates along the sides of the ribs that make them look like a hybrid between lizards and lions but Is covered by a layer of scales.

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This level of storage of dinosaur fossils is extremely good and very rare in nature. And the reason for such a particularly good preservation may be due to the perfect combination of many elements in nature. Researchers believe that this dinosaur could be swept into the water by a flash flood while being near a river (probably to drink water). When sunk to the bottom, where the dinosaurs were now found, it was quickly penetrated by minerals into the skin, armor and other parts, causing the dead Nodosaur to retain its shape. as when alive. And we have a living stone statue of the perfect dinosaur in the same year.