Baby dinosaur skeleton found intact in Alberta

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An extremely well-preserved baby dinosaur skeleton has been discovered in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta.

The fossil is extremely rare, as it’s the smallest intact skeleton ever found from a group of horned plant-eating dinosaurs known as ceratopsids — a group that includes the iconic triceratops.

"There's nothing else like it that I know of," said Don Brinkman from the Royal Tyrrell Museum.

This is just awesome, as stated in the article: "It's as close as you can get to a dinosaur mummy".

How many more to be dug up if they were once the dominant species on this planet...probably millions and God only knows how many races we don't even know existed.

Anyway, i though this was a great story and felt like sharing!

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Now that is pretty cool. Pic for this who can't be bothered visiting article:

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very very coooll man.

S+F

Its in good nick too, love to be able to get close up and have a dam good look at it with some detail

Thanks for posting the pic (I was trying to while you did

I appreciate that. How do you make it that big though?

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Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Yeah definitely. I would love to be able to witness this type of discovery first hand. Must be quite a feeling!!!

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Just to let you know teye if you need to upload a image. Go to the white spot with the down arrow click upload grab then upload again and grab you're image then once its done uploading click the picture then copy the BBcode and paste this anywhere in you're post,reply. hope this help ya out .

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They mean they found the "impression" of a whole skeleton?
Because I am pretty sure that is sediment where bones used to be a long time ago.
And rather than finding a skeleton they found where one had been fossilized.

There are a few cases of organic material being found, but from what I understand it's exceptionally rare.

The article's webpage keeps crashing on me, and only loads the first 4 or 5 paragraphs so I don't know if they said there were actual bones or anything in the find. I doubt it though. Could be wrong.

The fossil is extremely rare, as it’s the smallest intact skeleton ever found from a group of horned plant-eating dinosaurs known as ceratopsids — a group that includes the iconic triceratops.

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coolcatt
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Just to let you know teye if you need to upload a image. Go to the white spot with the down arrow click upload grab then upload again and grab you're image then once its done uploading click the picture then copy the BBcode and paste this anywhere in you're post,reply. hope this help ya out .

See u about

Thanks Coolcatt, I was using the thumbnail pic.....duh! I was wondering why some of my previous threads/post had larger pics... I got it now. I'm a quick one! loll

Interesting, very much so, thanx for sharing.........

What strikes me the most about it, is that it seems to be bi-pedal, the way it is standing, even the neck angle to allow it to see properly when "standing up"... ...

Nice looking for sure!

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Look at the cute little hood. Little baby dino with a little baby hood. Awwwwww!

Neat, S&F, I wonder if they tasted like turkey? (Can you tell I have a turkey in the oven and the house smells good?)

muzzleflash
They mean they found the "impression" of a whole skeleton?
Because I am pretty sure that is sediment where bones used to be a long time ago.
And rather than finding a skeleton they found where one had been fossilized.

There are a few cases of organic material being found, but from what I understand it's exceptionally rare.

The article's webpage keeps crashing on me, and only loads the first 4 or 5 paragraphs so I don't know if they said there were actual bones or anything in the find. I doubt it though. Could be wrong.

The (non-religious) dinosaur hoax question.

Some great evidence for the hoax is presented here.

That is an impressive fossil! Makes you wish you could have seen this little guy run around. SnF OP!

muzzleflash
They mean they found the "impression" of a whole skeleton?
Because I am pretty sure that is sediment where bones used to be a long time ago.
And rather than finding a skeleton they found where one had been fossilized.

There are a few cases of organic material being found, but from what I understand it's exceptionally rare.

The article's webpage keeps crashing on me, and only loads the first 4 or 5 paragraphs so I don't know if they said there were actual bones or anything in the find. I doubt it though. Could be wrong.

Actually it's rare they CHECK for organic material. I believe in the ones they have actually checked it has been common. No one ever checked though because conventional knowledge said it was impossible.