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The finding of a nearly complete skeleton of a triceratops dinosaur near Drumheller, Alberta in Canada is a major discovery, say scientists from a paleontology museum. A few bones were first seen by an alert former museum employee on a hill near a road.
The bones had come to be exposed because of erosion and the person who spotted some poking out once worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Canada's only museum that devotes itself entirely to paleontology, The museum is just 30 minutes east of the find and the bones of the 4,460-pound herbivore were in a rich area for fossils, but not for this dinosaur.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/331059#ixzz243zxd2dW
The bones had come to be exposed because of erosion and the person who spotted some poking out once worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Canada's only museum that devotes itself entirely to paleontology, The museum is just 30 minutes east of the find and the bones of the 4,460-pound herbivore were in a rich area for fossils, but not for this dinosaur.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/331059#ixzz243zxd2dW
