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Posts tagged dinosaurs

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“Canada is creating some of the most unique quarters ever. This version, celebrating the Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai which was discovered in Alberta, is permanently photo-luminescent, so when you look at it in the dark, you see the glow-in-the-dark dinosaur skeleton.”

“Canada is creating some of the most unique quarters ever. This version, celebrating the Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai which was discovered in Alberta, is permanently photo-luminescent, so when you look at it in the dark, you see the glow-in-the-dark dinosaur skeleton.”

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Jul9

Alberta dinosaur fossil smashed

“GRANDE PRAIRIE, ALTA. Police are looking for the vandals who destroyed the fossilized remains of a duck-billed dinosaur found last month in northwestern Alberta. Paleontologists were thrilled when they made the discovery, but their joy turned to despair when the bones of the Hadrosaur skeleton were found smashed to bits Thursday. The fossil was discovered by paleontologist Phil Bell and a University of Alberta team on June 15. The team had partly prepared it for removal and then reburied it for protection.”

This seems fairly typical of a distinctly Albertan attitude to our surroundings - see something? SMASH IT.

(Source: thespec.com)

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DINOSAUR FEATHERS! “Feathers believed to be from dinosaurs have been found beautifully preserved in Alberta amber. The primitive, hair-like feathers known as protofeathers likely belonged to theropods — dinosaurs similar to tiny Tyrannosaurus rexes — that roamed the swampy forests of Alberta 80 million years ago, said Alexander P. Wolfe, a University of Alberta earth sciences professor who co-authored the research published Thursday in Science. ‘Protofeathers aren’t known from any modern, existing groups of birds and therefore the most obvious interpretation is that they belong to dinosaurs,’ he said.”

DINOSAUR FEATHERS!

“Feathers believed to be from dinosaurs have been found beautifully preserved in Alberta amber. The primitive, hair-like feathers known as protofeathers likely belonged to theropods — dinosaurs similar to tiny Tyrannosaurus rexes — that roamed the swampy forests of Alberta 80 million years ago, said Alexander P. Wolfe, a University of Alberta earth sciences professor who co-authored the research published Thursday in Science.

‘Protofeathers aren’t known from any modern, existing groups of birds and therefore the most obvious interpretation is that they belong to dinosaurs,’ he said.”

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