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Title: Gemstone miners in Canada accidentally stumbled across a fossil of the ancient sea monster Tylosauru
Post by: Sanguine on July 14, 2019, 09:56:14 pm
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    Miners were hunting for a rainbow-coloured, opal-like gemstone for jewellery
    They found a type of mosasaur — a marine reptile from the time of the dinosaurs
    Its fossilised skeleton is almost entirely complete and only missing its flippers
    Mosasaurs were arch predators with fearsome teeth for gobbling up their prey

By Ian Randall For Mailonline

Published: 12:23 EDT, 5 July 2019 | Updated: 12:25 EDT, 5 July 2019

Hunting for shiny, rainbow-coloured gemstones, miners found a different kind of treasure — a wonderfully preserved fossil skeleton of an ancient sea monster.

The marine reptile lived 70 million years ago — at the same time as the dinosaurs — and was unearthed from a part of Alberta, Canada, that used to be underwater.

The skeleton of the fearsome predator has, rarely, been very well preserved, with only its flippers missing....

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/07/05/15/15674484-7216989-image-a-50_1562338145065.jpg)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7216989/Gemstone-miners-Canada-accidentally-stumbled-fossil-ancient-sea-monster.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7216989/Gemstone-miners-Canada-accidentally-stumbled-fossil-ancient-sea-monster.html)
Title: Re: Gemstone miners in Canada accidentally stumbled across a fossil of the ancient sea monster Tylos
Post by: Sanguine on July 14, 2019, 09:58:08 pm
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/07/05/16/15674488-7216989-image-a-62_1562342149513.jpg)
Title: Re: Gemstone miners in Canada accidentally stumbled across a fossil of the ancient sea monster Tylos
Post by: PeteS in CA on July 18, 2019, 11:51:11 pm
Not Mobysaurus or Orcasaurus?  :pop41: Interesting stuff.
Title: Re: Gemstone miners in Canada accidentally stumbled across a fossil of the ancient sea monster Tylos
Post by: Sanguine on July 19, 2019, 02:48:05 am
Quote from: PeteS in CA on July 18, 2019, 11:51:11 pm
Not Mobysaurus or Orcasaurus?  :pop41: Interesting stuff.

I love the opal ammonite.