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News High-Detail Dino Fossil Found by Accident in Canada

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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/

This actually happened in March... six years ago.

What happened was some workers at Millennium Mine in Alberta (which has produced a fair amount of petrified wood apparently) discovered a fossilized nodosaur better fossilized than any dinosaur in history. Skin and all, even with scale patternings, even though it's only the front half of the dino. It's so well preserved it's a bit of a problem - rock is much harder to X-ray than flesh and to get at the bones, paleontologists would have to risk destroying the fossil.

Radical.
 
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