Science is Fun Fridays!
Hubby and I were watching "Dino Hunt" before bed last night, and a lot was taking place in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta. I wanted to share a few of those findings.
#FossilFriday!
This is Borealopelta, a relative of the Ankylosaur. It is so well preserved that skin and soft tissues remain, and scientists have been able to determine its color based on lingering pigments.
Scientists believe this animal drowned somehow and its body taken out to sea, where it floated belly up until gases released, causing the dinosaur to sink. It hit the ocean floor hard enough to leave a small crater, and was then covered by fine sediment that encased it for millions of years.
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Royal Tyrell Musem of Paleontology
In a bone bed along Milk River, a new species of Ceratops was found and named for the woman who first found the spot - Wendiceratops. They knew when they found the horn pattern along the frill that they had something new.
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A new species of Hadrosaur was also found, and is the youngest found of the species.
Most duckbills have a large bony crest, but this species, known as Prasaurolophus, has only a small crest on the forehead. Scientists believe this crest changes and grows with sexual maturity.
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More recently, a jawbone was found and was determined to be of a new Tyrannosaurus species.
It's been nicknamed "The Reaper of Death" and is otherwise known as Thanatotheristes degreetorum.
This new species is about 2.5 million years older than its closest relatives.
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