Thursday, 13 November 2014

Alberta fishermen land rare fossil of never-before-seen dinosaur

Alberta fishermen land rare fossil of never-before-seen dinosaur


Two Alberta fishermen have hooked the catch of a lifetime: a never-before-seen, mostly intact dinosaur fossil believed to be more than 80 million years old. Researchers at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology say the ancient remains appear to be from a new species of hadrosaur, a duck-billed, plant-eating class of dinosaur characterized by an abnormally-shaped, elongated skull.

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