Ankylosaur Discovery - Royal Tyrrell Museum

It was an interesting day of work at Suncor Energy Mine on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 when mining shovels broke out some lumps of dirt that showed some striking texture and patterns. Workers halted work and sent photos to the Royal Tyrrell Museum, where scientists tentatively identified that it was, in fact, a fossil, and determined it was significant enough to warrant closer inspection.

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• Royal Tyrrell Museum
• ankylosaur
• discovery
• oil sands
• dinosaur

[mrblacksheep1o1]

@1:32 Sean (Funk ?) deserve recognition of some type.Not everyone cares enough to pay attention.

[RoyalTyrrellMuseum]

@mrblacksheep1o1 - Thank you for your comment. We at the Royal Tyrrell Museum are incredibly grateful to Mr. Funk & Mr. Gratton for the care they took in ensuring that this important piece of natural history was protected. Due to their actions we can now share this discovery and everything that will be learned from it with the entire world. It has affectionately been nicknamed "Funkosaurus" by members of the RTM staff.

[pilgrimpater]

Very interesting find (i have subscribed to you so i can be kept up to date with progress).

By the way do you have any comment as to how your work has been totally misrepresented by the creationist site (Institute of Creation "Research") - icr dot org/article/6056/ ? (it may help as i am thinking of doing a YT vid on their dishonesty when i return from a time away from home). Thanks.

[mozizzy]

It's true. Us non-palaeontologists always hear about the fossils but I imagine most of us don't appreciate how arduous the process is from reaching a fossil site, to having a specimen in a museum. The fossils being so rare as they are.

[whatbefalls13]

This is awesome.