currentsinbiology: Alberta museum unveils world’s best-preserved...

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currentsinbiology:

Alberta museum unveils world’s best-preserved armoured dinosaur

It has been compared to a dinosaur mummy, a lifelike sculpture and even a dragon from Game of Thrones.

Now, 110 million years after it died, the 18ft-long nodosaur – hailed as the best-preserved armoured dinosaur in the world – has been unveiled at a Canadian museum.

“Normally when we find dinosaur fossils we just have a skeleton, the bones. And we have to use our imaginations to reconstruct what they look like,” said Caleb Brown, a postdoctoral researcher at Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

“In this case, we’re very lucky in that it’s not just the bones; we have all of the armour, the osteoderm is preserved, we also have all the skin preserved and it is in three dimensions.”

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