The World’s Best Preserved Armoured Dinosaur

Dr. Caleb Brown, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, talks about the world’s best preserved armoured dinosaur. In the spring of 2017, a new armoured dinosaur was publically unveiled with the opening of the exhibit Grounds for Discovery. Borealopelta markmitchelli was discovered in the oil sands mines in northern Alberta in 2011 and took nearly 6 years to prepare. Borealopelta is the best-preserved ankylosaur (tank-like, herbivorous dinosaurs) in the world and one of the most spectacular fossilized dinos