Word got to paleontologist Matthew Vavrek, who went out to inspect. He wasn't expecting to see what he found on the side of a sandstone boulder.
"As we walked around it, we saw this whole part of a tail of a dinosaur. To see something like that is pretty incredible," he said.
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Paleontologists usually find fossils jumbled up, broken apart, crushed and spread out over a large area, not in one piece like this one.
"The last time I've seen something like that was in a museum. I've never found something like this before," he said. He has rarely ever even heard of a find like this anywhere in the world.
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Had the backhoe kept going, this fossil would have turned to mush, too.
The chunks that the shovel picked up, quickly fell to pieces. The driver noticed this and immediately halted it.
The dinosaur may have been tough when it was alive, but its fossil is as fragile as crumb cake.
"You handle it carefully, or it's just going to shatter," Vavrek said.
The Tourmaline Oil Corp has enlisted its workers and machinery to help Vavrek and his colleagues remove it gingerly and slowly.
That could take weeks, if the weather holds, or months, if there is a cold snap that freezes the dino in the ground.
The first flakes have already fallen, Vavrek said. Workers are in a race to beat Alberta's usually heavy snow fall.
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As they go, they will reveal just how big of a find this is.
"We don't know for sure that the rest of the animal is there," Vavrek said. "Sometimes, all you get is what you see."
They will take it out surrounded by much of the soil it's buried in then cart it off to a place where they can slowly clean and prepare it for study and identification.
Technicians will use tiny jackhammer-like instruments to buzz away the dirt and reveal the stony skeleton.
But even then, they still might not know what kind of dinosaur it is. If it is a textbook specimen that scientists are already familiar with, it could take years to categorize it.
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"If it turns out to be something new, never found before ... it would take even longer," Vavrek said.
If they do pull a whole dinosaur out of the ground, Vavrek thinks it will be about mid-size as dinosaurs go, or a little larger.
Its happenstance discovery by a backhoe seems ironic to Vavrek.
He is used to grueling prospecting tours for much smaller fossils in the Alberta wilderness, where he has to keep an eye out for dangerous wild animals.
He has had some encounters with black bears and grizzly bears. But they've gone well so far.the past.
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คำกับ paleontologist Matthew Vavrek ที่ไปตรวจสอบได้ เขาไม่ได้คาดหวังว่าจะเห็นสิ่งที่เขาพบด้านของหินหินทราย"ตามเราเดินรอบ ๆ เราเห็นส่วนหางของไดโนเสาร์นี้ทั้งหมด ดูเหมือนที่เหลือเชื่อสวย, "เขากล่าวไดโนเสาร์สิ่งกว่าคนในฟิล์มจริงไดโนเสาร์สิ่งกว่าคนจริงในฟิล์ม 02:55ไดโนเสาร์ roars เด็กทำงานไดโนเสาร์ roars เด็กทำงาน 00:53Paleontologists มักพบซากดึกดำบรรพ์ jumbled แตกแยก บด และกระจายออกผ่านพื้นที่ขนาดใหญ่ ในหนึ่งชิ้นเช่นนี้ไม่"สุดท้ายผมเคยเห็นเหมือนที่มีในพิพิธภัณฑ์ ฉันไม่เคยพบอะไรเช่นนี้มาก่อน เขากล่าวว่า นอกจากนี้เขายังแทบไม่เคยได้ยินของการค้นหาเช่นนี้ทั่วโลกนักวิจัยกล่าวว่า ซากดึกดำบรรพ์กับฟันพิสูจน์ต. rex มีพรีเดเตอร์ไดโนเสาร์ที่ละเอียดอ่อนก็ยังคงไปแบ็ค ซากดึกดำบรรพ์นี้จะมีเปิด mush เกินไปก้อนที่พลั่วขึ้น ลดลงอย่างรวดเร็วเป็นชิ้น โปรแกรมควบคุมที่พบนี้ และหยุดทันทีไดโนเสาร์อาจได้ยากเมื่อมีชีวิตอยู่ แต่ซากดึกดำบรรพ์จะเปราะบางที่เศษเค้ก"คุณจัดการอย่างระมัดระวัง หรือเพียงแค่มันจะป่นปี้ Vavrek กล่าวว่าCorp น้ำมันทัวร์มาลีนมีแซคนงานและเครื่องจักรของ Vavrek และเพื่อนร่วมงานของเขาเอา gingerly และช้าที่สามารถใช้เวลาสัปดาห์ ถ้าเก็บอากาศ เดือน ถ้ามีแป๊บเย็น ที่ตอบสนองไดโนในพื้นดินThe first flakes have already fallen, Vavrek said. Workers are in a race to beat Alberta's usually heavy snow fall.Will mammoths be brought back to life? Liquid blood fuels cloning hopesSlow revelationsAs they go, they will reveal just how big of a find this is."We don't know for sure that the rest of the animal is there," Vavrek said. "Sometimes, all you get is what you see."They will take it out surrounded by much of the soil it's buried in then cart it off to a place where they can slowly clean and prepare it for study and identification.Technicians will use tiny jackhammer-like instruments to buzz away the dirt and reveal the stony skeleton.But even then, they still might not know what kind of dinosaur it is. If it is a textbook specimen that scientists are already familiar with, it could take years to categorize it.New dinosaur is a primitive bird"If it turns out to be something new, never found before ... it would take even longer," Vavrek said.If they do pull a whole dinosaur out of the ground, Vavrek thinks it will be about mid-size as dinosaurs go, or a little larger.Its happenstance discovery by a backhoe seems ironic to Vavrek.He is used to grueling prospecting tours for much smaller fossils in the Alberta wilderness, where he has to keep an eye out for dangerous wild animals.He has had some encounters with black bears and grizzly bears. But they've gone well so far.the past.
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