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Spectacularly Detailed Armored Dinosaur “Mummy” Makes Its Debut

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this story crossed my radar this weekend.

In 2011, a heavy equipment operator at the Millennium Mine in northern Alberta started digging up odd-colored rock. He stopped to take a closer look, puzzling over the material, which was speckled with strange patterns. His supervisor quickly realized they had something special, Michael Greshko reports for National Geographic.

The operator had just extracted a bit of fossilized skin from an armored nodasaurus, a type of ankylosaur. But this wasn’t just any fossil, it was one of the best-preserved nodasaurus specimens ever found.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummified-armored-dinosaur-makes-its-debut-1-180963311/
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this source has more pictures :

?Dinosaur mummy? unveiled in Canada museum, 3000 lbs when alive, still weighs 2500 lbs after ages | dinosaur mummy | Museum | nodosaur | NTD Inspired

NTD-Dinosaur2.jpg

so, yes, you're looking at a dinosaur from 110 million years ago. the awesomeness of this is considerable.
 
Helix said:
this story crossed my radar this weekend.

this source has more pictures :

?Dinosaur mummy? unveiled in Canada museum, 3000 lbs when alive, still weighs 2500 lbs after ages | dinosaur mummy | Museum | nodosaur | NTD Inspired

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so, yes, you're looking at a dinosaur from 110 million years ago. the awesomeness of this is considerable.
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If this is for real, it is AWESOME!

To be able to verify what a creature that existed millions of years ago actually looked like...even if only to confirm or refute current renderings based on bone reconstructions is really amazing.

Every time this kind of evidence pops up it thrills me...and lends hope that more and more such evidence will eventually come to light the longer we look into it.

Thanks for posting. :thumbs:
 
Captain Adverse said:
If this is for real, it is AWESOME!

To be able to verify what a creature that existed millions of years ago actually looked like...even if only to confirm or refute current renderings based on bone reconstructions is really amazing.

Every time this kind of evidence pops up it thrills me...and lends hope that more and more such evidence will eventually come to light the longer we look into it.

Thanks for posting. :thumbs:
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it seemed to cool to be true, so i tried to debunk it. found multiple mainstream sources, none dated 1-April. ;)

here's another :

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/world/americas/dinosaur-fossil-nodosaur-alberta-oil-sands.html

super cool. didn't think that i would see a preserved dinosaur this weekend, so thank you, internet. another cool part of this is that it pretty much explains why many cultures have some sort of dragon legend, but we knew that already. that creature definitely looks like a young dragon.
 
Now that is something. Spectacular find!
 
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