Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Huge dinosaur fossil found in Alberta

[CBC]  Palaeontologists took 12 long days unearthing the 2,000-kilogram — or 4,460-pound — triple-horned herbivore earlier this summer in a location that's about a 30-minute drive from Drumheller. Dr. François Therrien, curator of dinosaur palaeoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, said it looked like a huge “log jam” of bones in the dirt. Therrien says a former employee noticed the 65-million-year-old fossil that was poking up after being exposed by erosion.