The best preserved dinosaur fossil [Album]


The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada Known as a nodosaur, this 110 million-year-old, armored plant-eater is the best preserved fossil of its kind ever found. Photographs by Robert Clark - National Geographics

Nodosaur head - Photographs by Robert Clark - National Geographics

Nodosaure spine Photographs by Robert Clark - National Geographics

SHIELDED FROM DECAY Armored dinosaurs’ trademark plates usually scattered early in decay, a fate that didn’t befall this nodosaur. The remarkably preserved armor will deepen scientists’ understanding of what nodosaurs looked like and how they moved. Photographs by Robert Clark - National Geographics

In life this imposing herbivore—called a nodosaurid ankylosaur, or nodosaur for short—stretched 18 feet long and weighed at least 3,000 pounds. Unlike its more famous cousins in the subgroup Ankylosauridae, this animal didn’t have a tail club. Chemical tests suggest that the nodosaur’s skin contained reddish pigments.

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