In 2011 a heavy machine operator in a Canadian oilsands mine struck his shovel on an extraordinary find — the most exquisitely preserved armored dinosaur the world has ever seen. On Thursday, it ...
On the afternoon of March 21, 2011, a heavy-equipment operator named Shawn Funk was carving his way through the earth, unaware that he would soon meet a dragon. That Monday had started like any other ...
Six years ago,, a heavy machine operator in Canada’s oilsands struck his bucket on something very large and very hard. It turned out to be a one-and-a billion discovery — an armored dinosaur almost ...
The armored dinosaur known as the Borealopelta markmitchelli — a nodosaur — was the subject of a study recently published in Royal Society Open Science. The researchers focused on the best-preserved ...
Researchers with help from an amateur fossil hunter have described the fossil of an armored dinosaur hatchling. It is the youngest nodosaur ever discovered, and a founder of a new genus and species ...
Eons before man dreamed of exploring the heavens, dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford is convinced, a low-slung armored beast roamed what is now a NASA campus in Greenbelt, stamping a huge footprint that ...
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110-million-year-old dinosaur mummy found with stomach intact: Here's why it remained preserved all this while
Millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth, leaving behind mysteries that are still buried deep beneath the ground in the form of fossils. And when these fossils are discovered by scientists and ...
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About 110 million years ago in what’s now Alberta, Canada, a dinosaur resembling a 2,800-pound pineapple ended up dead in a river. Today, that dinosaur is one of the best fossils of its kind ever ...
Analysis of organic material from the 110m-year-old nodosaur suggests it had red and white camouflage, indicating its spikes alone did not put off predators It was built like a tank, covered in armour ...
Not one, but two nodosaurs passed through the campus of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., between 110 and 112 million years ago, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) paleontologist ...
The well-preserved nodosaur fossil Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Canada In May, the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta debuted a stunning fossil, a life-like “mummy” of a 110-million ...
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