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[JonnyDBrit]

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/

Some 110 million years ago, this armored plant-eater lumbered through what is now western Canada, until a flooded river swept it into open sea. The dinosaur’s undersea burial preserved its armor in exquisite detail. Its skull still bears tile-like plates and a gray patina of fossilized skins.

In life this imposing herbivore—called a nodosaur—stretched 18 feet long and weighed nearly 3,000 pounds. Researchers suspect it initially fossilized whole, but when it was found in 2011, only the front half, from the snout to the hips, was intact enough to recover. The specimen is the best fossil of a nodosaur ever found.

My inner archaeologist screamed with joy at this article crossing my feed. The thing has fossilized skin.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

This is incredible!

After seeing that picture I had to remind myself April is over.

 

[GuitarAtomik]

Holy shit. That's awesome.

 

[Sulik2]

No feathers, thats my kind of dinosaur.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Nice.

 

[Stinkles]

And not a feather in sight!


#teamscales


100% explains dragon myths too. Like, zero doubt.

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

 

[Toa TAK]

Holy shit.

Look at the fucking detail.

 

[ReadingRambo]

Yeah sure they "found" it. They knew where to look because they put it there.

 

[jerry113]

That looks like a Pokemon

 

[Machina]

That is insane. It's almost like it was sculpted by special effects artists for Jurassic Park

 

[BotoxAgent]

god damn amazing

 

[HotHamBoy]

And not a feather in sight!


#teamscales


100% explains dragon myths too. Like, zero doubt.

God damn it.

 

[Kojirospath]

I knew it! The feathers are a lie!

 

[Miggytronz]

Hell yeah!!! Science baby!!

 

[Killthee]

Wow, it's beautiful.

 

[Brashnir]

And not a feather in sight!


#teamscales


100% explains dragon myths too. Like, zero doubt.

Anklyosaurs were never thought to be among the group of dinosaurs that had feathers.

 

[KeyBladerXIII]

It's a great reminder that these things actually existed. Giant lizards in plate armor existed and we have its skin.

 

[SpaceWolf]

This is amazing!

Man alive! What a find!

 

[Apathy]

Canada winning again

Also, looks like it could be blizzard cross promotion for un'goro. Thing looks a lot like some of the dinos in the set

 

[sphagnum]

holy shit

 

[Master Yoshi]

Holy shit, incredible!

 

[Stinkles]

God damn it.

#teamscales
#teampluto
#teamgeneralrelativity

 

[Preezy]

But the world is only 6,000 years old, how can this be true?

 

[djkimothy]

Nice find!

 

[Machina]

But the world is only 6,000 years old, how can this be true?

Religion be like "FAKE NEWS!"

 

[CreeperBlocks]

Now that's a cool dino

 

[Plywood]

You could only have a creature of this size and scale on a flat earth.

 

[ahoyhoy]

So how close were paleontologists to predicting its armor plating based solely on fossilized bones?

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

What an amazing find.

Seriously, I couldn't imagine the thrill of finding something like this. I really hope one day soon a large Theropod is found in such an amazing state.

And not a feather in sight!


#teamscales

So this is what happened to the Jackals and Skirmishers.

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

This is amazing

 

[Caelus]

Needs to be revived at Pewter City so I can challenge the Pokemon League with it :'(

 

[Machina]

If any middle school Biology teachers wanna blow their students minds, take them on an excursion to see this thing

 

[Chmpocalypse]

Canada winning again

Also, looks like it could be blizzard cross promotion for un'goro. Thing looks a lot like some of the dinos in the set

Hahahaha!

that'sdamngood.gif

 

[JonnyDBrit]

If any middle school Biology teachers wanna blow their students minds, take them on an excursion to see this thing

I'm a university student in Britain and this suddenly drove up my interest to visit Canada. Because goddamn look at it.

 

[AbsolutBro]

Anklyosaurs were never thought to be among the group of dinosaurs that had feathers.

Also, one of my favourite dinosaurs.

Armoured. Eyelids. Thing was a walking tank.

 

[Easy_D]

That's the coolest thing I've seen this year. Holy crap that is awesome

 

[ReadingRambo]

Did you know Cleopatra lived closer in time to this dino than when the pyramids were made.

 

[Slackbladder]

Just a little correction - this is paleontology not archeology.
And that's a great find. So much detail.

 

[Master Yoshi]

Did you know Cleopatra lived closer in time to this dino than when the pyramids were made.

This can't be accurate.. ?

 

[Joqu]

Yeah, I saw this a little while earlier. Such an amazing fossil. And creature.

 

[Brashnir]

This can't be accurate.. ?

it's not. I assumed it was some meme.

 

[ReadingRambo]

This can't be accurate.. ?

It's not. But she did live closer in time to us than when the pyramids were built.

 

[DopeyFish]

So how close were paleontologists to predicting its armor plating based solely on fossilized bones?

new species

 

[GasProblem]

Man, that's amazing.

 

[Niraj]

That's really awesome

 

[Boss Doggie]

Torterra!

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

Neat... dinosaur.

But this means the coloring will also be known, right? Because that's still one of those topics that is in need of settling: how did non-avian dinosaurs use colors?

 

[HStallion]

And not a feather in sight!


#teamscales


100% explains dragon myths too. Like, zero doubt.

Its thought that the idea of cyclops from myth is because ancient people discovered mammoth skeletons and assumed the large nasal cavity was in fact a single eye socket. That and they assumed that the Skeleton was set up like an upright biped like themselves and not a four legged animal like it really was.

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Holy shit! That's amazing.