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Re:110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue by ChuckMcM on Friday May 12, 2017 @05:03PM (#14327918)
Really awesome writeup of the find. Is Suncor going to be doing any additional, and somewhat more reserved, excavating to understand whether or not there are other important fossils nearby?
Re:110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue by michaelgreshko on Friday May 12, 2017 @06:02PM (#14328276)
Thanks. Interestingly, this is the first large fossil like this that Suncor had run across, in all the digging they had done up in the oil sands. And as you can imagine, finding a land animal like this nodosaur in the middle of what would've been a shallow sea is extraordinarily unlikely. Other mining companies have found other fossils in similar formations, though usually of non-dinosaur marine reptiles (e.g. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/ancient-sea-monster-b...).