Statuesque dinosaur fossil discovered

[Whateverist]

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.

I thought NG was a creationist vehicle now.  Did it happen to say what use people made of this critter back in the day?

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How old were you when the original 1 Million Years B.C. came out though? (it came out in 1966).

16-ish.  Racquel was numero primo jerkoff material.

Yeah until that came out all we had were the photos of models wearing foundation garments in the Sears catalog.  Of course some of them were pretty hot...