(May 12, 2017 at 11:38 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:Tells you how good the reproductionists are, and how well we know the subjects after less at 200 years study.Quote:Before being assembled into something recognizable at a museum, most dinosaur fossils look to the casual observer like nothing more than common rocks. No one, however, would confuse the over 110 million-year-old nodosaur fossil for a stone.
The fossil, being unveiled today in Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, is so well preserved it looks like a statue.
Even more surprising might be its accidental discovery, as unveiled in the June issue of National Geographic magazine.
On March 21, 2011, Shawn Funk was digging in Alberta’s Millennium Mine with a mechanical backhoe, when he hit “something much harder than the surrounding rock.” A closer look revealed something that looked like no rock Funk had ever seen, just “row after row of sandy brown disks, each ringed in gunmetal gray stone.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...e6e91b099f
Just amazing. What really surprises me is how it hardly differs from the artist's impressions I'd see in books as a kid.
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