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Titanosaurus
Topic Started: Jan 16 2016, 07:21 AM (448 Views)
Trotsky
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Museum of Natural History just got a new installation this month. It is a dinosaur skeleton from Argentina of the largest animal that ever walked the Earth, dubbed Titanosaurus, at 122 feet long.

Since I turned 16, I have considered this museum rather simplistic, except for the excellent gem collection, but I really want to see this baby. So we've got to work on a freebie.

Titanosaurus
Edited by Trotsky, Jan 16 2016, 07:24 AM.
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Darcie
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Lucky you.
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Bitsy
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What a sight that will be. Send pics.
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David
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I would LOVE to see that thing!
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A teacher I knew slightly discovered a bone bed in our region, near Grande Prairie, Alberta. It turned out to be a herd of a new species and Al Lakusta got his name on it.
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There is now (opened three months ago) a good sized Dino museum near the site. It is named after Alberta's leading Dino digger, Phillip Currie. I found the big one at Drumheller, Alberta exhausting but this little one was a pleasure to visit. https://dinomuseum.ca

This is an exhibit of one at the museum.
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I was fascinated with the Mastodon and Mammoth castes (not local).
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The exhibited this partial tail found in the area where we live, discovered several years ago during pipeline construction. Posted Image
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FuzzyO
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Great pics Delphi! Trotsky can't wait to hear your report on thlatione 'dinostallation'.
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Kahu
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That'd be your local museum Delphi!
I was really impressed with the Royal Tyrrell in Drumheller ... I wish I had a longer time to have a bit of a fossick!
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Yes, only an hour or so away. We had a bit of a fossick (my first meet with that word) at Pipestone Creek with most of our visitors in the last decade, finding a bit of dinosaur bone for every kid at least. Quite a few scraps were left in the dirt when the pros were finished so we'll probably go again.

At Drumheller we went way down into the badlands south of town to look for ammolite but had no luck. We do find some occasionally in the creeks at home. Once I found a 30 pound ammonite fossil in the middle of a 20 km hike with my DD, left it as too heavy to carry home, and later my daughter went back to get it as a birthday present for me.
https://www.theshoppingchannel.com/Ammolite-Gems/pages/productresults?nav=n:100129
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Yes, only an hour or so away. We had a bit of a fossick (my first meet with that word) at Pipestone Creek with most of our visitors in the last decade, finding a bit of dinosaur bone for every kid at least. Quite a few scraps were left in the dirt when the pros were finished so we'll probably go again.


Every month they visit a few KFC outlets and collect some chicken bones to "salt" the soil for the next batch of tourists.
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A new Dino species has been discovered at Pipestone Creek. About the size of a dog with teeth like fish knives.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/dinosaur-described-as-savage-predator-uncovered-in-northwestern-alberta
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If you scrapped off the top 100' of Alberta, you'd find more dinosaur bones and fossils than you could count. When we lived near Drumheller, I used to go out hunting for dino bones and fossils quite a bit, and was on the Board of Directors with a Science camp affiliated with the museum. There are some places (on private land) near Drumheller that are pretty much unvisited by humans, lots of fossilized huge logs laying on the coulee bottoms, Indian artifacts and teepee rings, and dinosaur bones literally sticking out of the river eroded hills. I have attached a couple pics of 2 large pieces I found less than a KM from our house, I have quite a few smaller pieces in our garage. I used to take any visitor who was interested in Dinosaurs on excursions near our place, every spring after runoff there were lots of new discoveries. In Alberta, you are allowed to surface collect fossils, but you aren't allowed to dig for them.
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How amazing it must be to find something like that!
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Dialtone
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Mar 18 2016, 07:27 AM
How amazing it must be to find something like that!
Honestly, it's like finding a lost treasure. When you find a big piece of dinosaur bone such as the leg joints in my attachments, you are the first person in history to ever see or handle it. It really gives you a peculiar, almost mesmerizing feeling, made even greater after you take it home and wash off the millions of years of dirt and sediment and examine it closely. I found one piece of fossilized wood with a big glob of amber, I expect there are some ancient microscopic insects entombed in it. Totally fascinating.
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I can only imagine how excited kids would be! When you wash do you have to used distilled water the way we do to conserve antique fabric and so on?
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Most of the big bones are washed with the hose outside, they are usually found in mud and sediment so needs some pressure to get all the dirt off. The bones themselves are mineralized so they are just like rock, after being in millions of years of sediment, mud, river and rain water. The pieces in the pictures weigh about 20 lbs each, make great conversation pieces and doorstops. The process of permineralization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permineralization
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