75% of 83-million-year-old mosasaur skeleton uncovered, Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre says
Researchers in southern Manitoba have made the rare discovery of what may be a complete fossilized skeleton belonging to a roughly 83-million-year-old marine reptile.
Excavations are still ongoing, but scientists have uncovered roughly 75 per cent of a mosasaur skeleton near the small community of Miami, Manitoba, about 110 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg.
Finding such an intact skeleton is rare, according to Adolfo Cuetara, the executive director of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, about 20 kilometres southeast of Miami.
"Normally you're only finding isolated bones, but this time it looks like we have a whole skeleton," he said in an interview with Radio-Canada on Monday.
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Researchers in southern Manitoba have made the rare discovery of what may be a complete fossilized skeleton belonging to a roughly 83-million-year-old marine reptile.
Excavations are still ongoing, but scientists have uncovered roughly 75 per cent of a mosasaur skeleton near the small community of Miami, Manitoba, about 110 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg.
Finding such an intact skeleton is rare, according to Adolfo Cuetara, the executive director of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, about 20 kilometres southeast of Miami.
"Normally you're only finding isolated bones, but this time it looks like we have a whole skeleton," he said in an interview with Radio-Canada on Monday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mani...QCpCpAwF6URmdWz8FT6HWGxh1aaN0X1kWjIDv4saWLQrc