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Suncor nodosaur fossil photo credit: Wikimedia Commons / Machairo / CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Nodosaurs were tank-like dinosaurs, similar to ankylosaurs, covered with spiky scales and a pair of two-foot-long spikes—one protruding from each shoulder. Miner S[h]awn Funk encountered one during 2011 in Alberta’s Millennium Mine. The fossil turned out to be the best of its kind.To read the rest of the article, click on "Secrets from the World's Best-Preserved Nodosaur".
No technical reports yet describe the specimen, but researchers have learned enough during the past six years of its painstaking preparation to suggest that it holds plenty of secrets about dinosaur life, death, and preservation.
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