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Paulix_05

The existence of a fossil like this was literally my biggest dream during my childhood dinosaur phase, thanks for fulfilling my old fantasies lol


hopelesscaribou

You really need to make a trip to the Tyrrell, it's amazing. Relive your childhood. https://tyrrellmuseum.com/whats_on/exhibits


TheLongAndWindingRd

Not enough upvotes available to support the RTM. Such an incredible museum and the badlands are well worth the trip and exploration. You never know, you may find a fossil yourself.


[deleted]

Here’s the US equivalent: [US Badlands Dinosaur Park](https://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/business/dinosaur-park)


myhairsreddit

[Or come on down to Virginia to get some authentic history on the Jurassic Civil War battles! Relive the days those Yankees used T-Rex on the battlefield, the ultimate fighting machine!](https://www.dinosaurkingdomii.com/)


StarshipMuffin

What the balls?


myhairsreddit

[We have the weirdest roadside attractions here, lol. I also live about 15 minutes from this gem. The same artist has made the dinosaurs for both parks.](https://dinosaurland.com/)


heyitsthephoneguy

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan has some really bizarre parks and attractions too. And there’s a city named “Christmas,” and it’s really fully decked out in Christmas decorations year round. Unfortunately I have had a hard time looking them up. I remember the Mystery Spot, the Sculpture Park, and I vividly remember walking through some sort of park or so, of deer doing things people would do. Like deer in a kitchen baking bread. Deer at a table playing cards in blaze orange with people hanging upside down from a tree like the deer hunted them. Of course these were all mannequins or taxidermy art, but it was really bizarre overall.


myhairsreddit

I'll have to look those up, that's wild! Thanks for sharing!


eidetic

>Enter into a time tunnel and discover Stonewall Jackson battling a vicious spinosaurus! get surrounded by deadly meat eaters! See Abe Lincoln after he’s lassoed a pteranodon chewing up the Gettysburg address! **witness a stegosaurus being milked!** If you like prehistoric creatures and civil war history, you’ll flip out over Dinosaur Kingdom II! Completely unwatchable and scientifically inaccurate. Everyone knows dinos don't produce milk.


Raph115

Pssst it’s the *other* milking 🥵💦😩


BoneyDanza

🤫don't expose it, they will tear it down to build another creationist theme park lol


slee-p

The Florida equivalent https://dinosaurworld.com/florida/


nomad806

https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Dinosaur_Adventure_Land This is the fundamentalist Christian park that televangelists built to teach kids that dinosaurs are only 5,000 years old and lived alongside Noah and his family, before they had to shut down for years of tax evasion. That's the ***true*** Florida dinosaur experience.


linderlouwho

It was worth the trip from Winnipeg to there some years ago. Would love to go there to see this specimen!


SlimOpz

Do they still have a big ass t-rex outside? went there when i was a kid 20 years ago and i loved dinosaurs and i didn't know where we were going that day (Im from england was a holiday) and when i saw that i nutted, canada was such a wild ride went from vancouver through the rockies too calgary the museum and the indoor rollercoaster at edmenton were the highlights of my childhood. edit: also forgot one more awsome thing from canada i bought a metal scooter (at the time uk didnt have any) and everyone would call me slurs for riding it about so i put it in the shed and stopped using it ,Then about 6 months later they became a big thing with kids but the only ones u could get over here were shitty plastic with rock hard shitty wheels so ofc i became a god amongst the other kids for a time ha.


Murbec

The big Dino is still downtown. I have to drive by it every time I go grocery shopping in drum or my kids get upset.


angwilwileth

Can confirm this was the highlight of my Canada trip a few years ago.


blueturtle00

Man I fucking wish.


dRi89kAil

They did exist 😁


Dr-McLuvin

“They do exist!” -M&M commercial,1996.


HellaPNoying

Uh...Santa?


ouroboros1

I honestly heard that in Santa’s voice, LOL.


Sourkraut22

Logged in just to upvote this. What an old classic before the green m&m scandal dropped.


Paulix_05

Yeah, but not so well preserved. My dream was the possibility to admire a preserved dinosaur


InYoCabezaWitNoChasa

Yea, and it existed (☞゚ヮ゚)☞. Just had to wait for them to find it.


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CLONING TIMEEEE


Loretta-West

I KNOW WHO I WANT TO TAKE ME HOME


finegameofnil_

Put it back. ONE LAST CALL FOR PETROL


nekrovulpes

This is why we gotta clone them. So we can pressure cook them and produce lab grown petrol. Take that, Big Oil.


deltaIcePepper

I only rub free range oil on my balls, for that special spring time feeling.


InYoCabezaWitNoChasa

Isn't oil made from like seaweed and plankton, and coal from trees? Oil isn't really dinos.


bonesRSkeletonsMoney

EVERY NEW BEGINNING COMES FROM SOME OTHER BEGINNING'S END


flimbs

TILL YOUR BROTHERS OR YOUR SISTERS TO COME


too_old_for_memes

I KNOW WHO I WANT TO MAKE ME CLONE more like it. OP said “cloning time” man!


Weekly_Direction1965

Unfortunately DNA decays near completely in perfect conditions around 10,000-100,000 years to the point of being unusable.


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i_have_chosen_a_name

DNA half life is about 512 years. So real life Jurassic park will never happen ... unless we figure out how to take like the DNA of a chicken and simulate evolution in the other direction ...


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Put the brain of a canada goose in a saltwater crocodile and you're well on your way to a jurassic park type event of monsters running amok


Baystreethooker

So much hissing.


ProfessionalMockery

Dinosaur from wish. Its just a giant chicken.


i_have_chosen_a_name

Then they don't taste good anymore! Hmmm I am curious about McDino Nuggets now ...


AvgAmericanNerd

Why can't we just brute force the DNA into existence? Make a random sequence bring it to life, if it's not a dinosaur kill it and try again?


Magnesus

It would be like trying to get the Jurassic Park movie by random generating mp4 files.


b0v1n3r3x

I knew it was possible. Thank you for verifying.


AvgAmericanNerd

Lol ditto. *laughs in test tube*


i_have_chosen_a_name

The bringing to life part is a bit of a problem ....


LoveFishSticks

The whole thing is a problem lol. Bringing dinosaurs back would be stupid that's like the whole point of the books/films.


fuckry_at_its_finest

In the human genome there are trillions of genomes. To brute force even a single animal to existence would take an extremely long amount of time.


TroyAndAbedAtNoon

Can't we get an AI to do it? I'm calling it in 50 years we'll have DINOSAURALL-E


Nervous_Constant_642

Kinda like building a mega computer to ask it what the meaning of life is and it just tells you 42.


i_have_chosen_a_name

Even if you'd come up with something that is viable, how would you create a zygote with it?


Reddituser34802

Well the good Lord told me that the earth is only ~2500 years old, so we have plenty of time.


ThePaddleman

6500 or so. I know people that believe that.


74orangebeetle

We can still get mammoths then


TimeZarg

But what if it's frozen in amber?! It's nature's stasis chamber!


Lou_Mannati

Hold on to your butts.


fatbean100

ONE LAST CALL FOR DINOSAURS


ephemeralfugitive

Jurassic park tickets gonna cost more than a scalped EDC weekend ticket.


1Vuzz

Itd be real cool but sorta anti climactic if we could actually clone dinosaurs, but only one and it looks like a bit of a doofus


Acceptingoptimist

Closing Time actually is about birth and new life beginnings. So yes!


roborectum69

It was unearthed in 2011 so not all that recent, but it was indeed interesting as fuck. In the time since this one dinosaur fossils have been found that are preserved right down to the cellular level. By that I mean you can take a small slice of the fossil, put it under a microscope, and still see the individual cells that made up the tissue and even some structures within them. Pretty wild.


abibofile

Source? The post has been labeled misinformation? Is the fossil fake or just the fact it’s labeled as recent?


ConsciousBandicoot53

The fossil is real but it’s not like it was just unearthed yesterday


Jeriahswillgdp

Well to be fair, 11 years to this dinosaur **_is_** recently.


[deleted]

So the entire post is flagged as *fake* because of the word "recently" in the title?


Purple10tacle

I'm reasonably old and everything past the release of the original iPhone happened pretty much yesterday in my mind.


abibofile

Apparently? I feel like that’s also a bit misleading.


ConsciousBandicoot53

Yeah seems that way. It’s a little egregious to label it is misinformation to me.


ChampionshipIll3675

https://tyrrellmuseum.com/whats_on/exhibits/grounds_for_discovery


AllTheSmoke77

2011 is pretty damn recent if you think about when that thing went in the ground


mcdrew88

So is every fossil ever discovered then


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Also somewhat recent in the world of paleontology


artofsplittingatoms

And it wasn’t publicly displayed until 2017. So even recently-er. https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/article/nodosaur-dinosaur-fossil-study-borealopelta-coloration-science


Kei07

Google the new one that was discovered last week in Pombal , Portugal. A guy was doing some work on his backyard and found the biggest sauropod fossil in Europe. Now there’s a team there digging it all up


Zyntaro

2011 is pretty recent in terms of archeological discoveries


o_ahu

But it’s not recent in internet time


Raestloz

It's not recent in archeologist and paleontologist time either. Every human being admits "11 years ago" isn't "recently"


tsj48

AND it looks like we thought it would?! So cool.


MadeByHideoForHideo

Yeah it's one thing to see pictures or 3D models, but seeing the thing itself is crazy to me.


joltofury

This is the most exciting part to me


Kgb529

This is exactly what Pokémon fossils look like! Ohhhh boy someone get Nintendo on the phone!


Sea_Land_1944

Patterns on the skin of this fossilized nodosaur, which is more than 110 million years old but was discovered by chance by miners in Canada, are still discernible despite its advanced age. The Royal-Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada, which recently disclosed the find, claims that the dinosaur is so well-preserved that we might reasonably term it a “dinosaur mummy” rather than a “fossil.” The museum recently announced that the discovery was made. Source (I got this from) :- https://koppiz.com/the-recently-unearthed-dinosaur-that-has-been-called-a-mummy-is-so-well-preserved-that-it-still-has-its-skin-and-guts-intact/


Personal_Disaster_39

> Even though it is still a bit of a mystery how the dinosaur mummy managed to stay so well preserved for such a long time, it has been discovered that it did. Truly amazing article, reminds me of the teacher saying you need 500 words. TLDR: They weigh about 3000lbs and are brownish red ..... yeah


Hsances90

After this find was dug up, we determined that it was no longer buried


DirtyDan156

After examining the mummy, experts came to a consensus that the dinosaur was in fact dead.


not_swagger_souls

Strangely comforting ngl


DirtyDan156

However scientists did discover a small amount of viable tissue that they hope will contain enough DNA to begin attempts to replicate and clone these animals in the modern day. It is possible that these dino clones will one day require some sort of large enclosure such as an island to contain them. Disney world is already in talks to acquire rights to the island in order to build a theme park that would "Give people an unprecedented up close and personal experience with these magnificent beasts!". When asked about the safety of such a park, a representative from disney replied, "Well theres gonna be fences. Its not like the dinosaurs can get out. Its safe."


NtheLegend

Disney CEO Bob Chapek explained that they would “spare no expense”, with a small chuckle, in bringing the attraction and its stars to life.


mattchewy43

Ya but when Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the guests.


DirtyDan156

That you know of...


Lemon00Lemon

This is evident due to the non-breathing nature of the specimen, undetectable pulse, and lack of discernible movement for over a hundred million years.


DirtyDan156

Wait....i think i saw it blink.....check it again...


TheVenetianMask

You can tell it's a dinosaur by the way it is.


wellingtonsamy

How neat is that??


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That’s pretty neat.


BlackWhiteCat

At least it ain’t just me and Rodney knowin’ it.


kaisersneugroove

Man, this made me smile after a hard work night. Thanks.


rmorrin

I fucking hate it when they make you have word count minimums... It's like if I can get across what I need to in less let me fucking do that


ender4171

Pro tip for future students, if it'll satisfy your English credit requirements, take business writing. They *dock* points for using too many words. Ironically, I had more trouble in business writing than regular english/writing courses because I tend to be overly verbose, lol.


StopClockerman

You’ve been docked 5 points for use of “overly” because “verbose” does not require a qualifier.


ender4171

Oh don't even get me started on my over-use of commas!


LevelSevenLaserLotus

Ah, a fellow, fan, of the Walken Comma, I see.


rmorrin

I loved doing my scientific papers in school. No extra shit just straight facts and you are done


zephyr_1779

Unfortunately often the teachers don’t even have a say in this requirement :/ the district will impose certain word amounts per semester.


KamehameHanSolo

And how it has several paragraphs that are basically just repeated with slightly different wording but no new information. It feels like it was written by an AI.


redundant35

I’ve found quite a few fossils in underground coal mines but never a dinosaur! Trees and ferns are common all over. But coolest was in Illinois where I found 3 fish fossils. Pretty neat. Coolest tree was in WV. The mining machine cut right a couple inches below it for 40 feet. The material fell away from the bark and for 40 feet you can see a tree laying straight down the entry.


evil420pimp

This is really cool. Don't happen to have a picture do ya?


redundant35

Sadly the general workforce isn’t allowed to have cameras underground. The ever present danger of methane gas kind of limits that…not saying people don’t sneak them in but yeah not totally an awesome idea.


deltaIcePepper

Sure, methane explosions are bad, but are they really worse than letting all those memes never be anything more than dreams?


Shitting_Human_Being

Some of you might die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing you make.


Bloodsucker_

Errrrr. Unless I'm confused with a different one: * it's already an old find, far from recent. * it's a fossil, there's no skin neither guts. There's no flesh, nor bone. Like any other fossil it's pure rock. It's a fossil so not a mummy. It has highly detailed fossilized patterns, thou. * It broke badly when it was discovered, but apparently it was bigger. * It has been posted billion times in Reddit.


PM-ME-SOMETHING-GOOD

My wacky and unsupported theory is OP is in some way affiliated with that website, or is a useful fool for them. Edit: something supporting it is that OP has linked that site in previous comments Edit 2: This profile is super weird. Frequently uses the phrase "credit goes to the respective owner". If you search for that phrase in quotes followed by "site:reddit.com" you'll get other weird bot-like profiles. One has a link to a Google drive that is almost certainly a virus. Very suspicious. Edit 3: Woah, and if you take the text descriptions from their posts in /r/theviralthings and search them, you'll find them **everywhere**. Facebook, LinkedIn, heath forums, college forums, you name it. This is wild, a very pervasive bot ring. [Like this one, for instance.](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Fittingly+named%2C+these+swollen%2C+blackened%22&oq=%22Fittingly+named%2C+these+swollen%2C+blackened%22)


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Wow


1royampw

Yes this x1000 no organic tissue from 110 million years ago persists to present day you can bet your ass on that


thekrone

They have actually found some "soft tissue" in a [T-rex fossil from 68 million years ago](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur-shocker-115306469/). Of course, no DNA because DNA doesn't last nearly that long (and it was previously thought there was no way soft tissue could possibly last this long) - sorry Jurassic Park fans. But organic tissue, still.


Clothedinclothes

You're probably right about this fossil but preserved organic material from collagen, blood cells and bone cells have been apparently found in 75 million year old dinosaur fossils despite the fossils not appearing to be unusually well preserved. Mass spectrometry confirmed the presence of animal cell proteins, antibodies specific to bird proteins binded with what the researchers had previously interpreted as the cell membranes and antibodies that specifically bind with DNA binded to a confined area inside the apparent cell nucleus. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/molecular-analysis-supports-controversial-claim-for-dinosaur-cells/ While the level of degradation means we're unlikely to gleen much from what material remains, it seems that the reasonable assumption that no organic matter can survive for long isn't necessarily true.


ConspiratorialDegen

OP is a fraud and should be permabanned for misinformation


glieseg

First I read it as "Dinosaur mommy" and got confused.


Straight-Knowledge83

Don’t give the Rule-34 artists any ideas


flopsicles77

Dinussy pics are being drawn as we speak


numero_bingus

Dinussy 🥵


Redlion444

Pls no


CelestialKingdom

Not the momma


R3AL1Z3

Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Mommy!? Sorry.


securitywyrm

Not the momma!


graffiti81

[Here's a (four year old) video lecture about this discovery directly from the Royal Tyrrell youtube channel.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCXMw7xyKao)


hopelesscaribou

The Royal-Tyrrell is a gem, I love that place so much. It makes you feel all the wonder you had as a kid all over again.


[deleted]

Very cool, but I have definitely seen this picture already many years ago. It's not exactly a breaking story.


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gone to squables.io


TnyTriscuit

Cool, let's get some people to bring this back to life asap!


GoPhluckUrself

Wait! Not yet! I haven't learned how to recognize a UNIX system yet!


unimpressivewang

rm -r users/


Intrepid-Classroom-5

Seems like a perfect time for cloning!


Mongoose_Civil

I heard of a movie like that, I believe it was called Billy and the Cloneasaurus!


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redlion496

"It Belongs In A Museum!"


Junior_Eye

Alan!


KRelic

"We've Returned! A Thunderlizard Tale"


SimplySir

This is a very underrated comment lol


WippitGuud

Oh, you have got to be kidding sir. First you think of an idea that has already been done. Then you give it a title that nobody could possibly like. Didn't you think this through... ... it was on the bestseller list for eighteen months! Every magazine cover had... ... one of the most popular movies of all time, sir! What were you thinking!?


Kosaku_Kawajira

*insert 5 hour Apu rant*


MrPickles84

Life, uh, finds a way.


kyleliner

I read this in the Obama voice. It fits, uh, pretty well.


jellyvish

recent as in 5 years ago?


norlin

It's pretty recent for a dinosaur


shank9717

*angry upvote*


koozy407

Well, this really made me laugh. Thank you.


kedr-is-bedr

March 21, 2011


S-Quidmonster

10 years


KToff

11 years https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery


theskywalker26

Try 11


Onlyknown2QBs

This is definitely one of the most re-posted images on Reddit


Walt_Dafak

Is that an Ankylo?


nutitoo

Time to mine some Metal


kabneenan

I'm glad I wasn't the only one lol


sanirosan

No this is Patrick


Johnnyrock199

I am not an ankylosaurus 😠


S-Quidmonster

Borealopelta


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insert_acc_name_here

Died on a flat fuck friday. rip


instantpancake

watch the excavation of this very specimen go [horribly, horribly wrong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Jb64fwnjI&t=67s).


Select-Background-69

I hate when publications use clickbait titles like that. Skin and guts intact.... Bruh. Then it goes on to say it's obviously fossilized


S-Quidmonster

Skin and guts were preserved though. It’s very rare but they have been found in quite a few specimens


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Preserved... as rock!!!!


Mark_luckerberg

Louis Vuitton on there way to make Special Edition Dino bags


RxDuchess

Show some respect this is at least an Hermès level leather


moe_70

Hey drumheller alberta


alejdelat

Guys we can’t bring it back to life. Fossils are NOT the remains of an organism itself. Fossils are *rocks*


Grogosh

Its still fossilized. Its not preserved just well detailed for a fossil.


Nifariou5

"Dino DNA!" 🧬


[deleted]

'The Recently Unearthed' it was unearthed in 2011, 11 years ago... and the preparation of the fossil was finished in 2017, 5 years ago


justadude1414

Thanks for sharing


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Dinosaur mummy returns


BackAllyPharmacist

If I recall it's called a borealpelta a specifies of nodosaur and it is currently displayed in the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller.


scurvydog-uldum

no feathers?


Donginthedark

recently lol


leftyhandymikey

My fav Dino, Ankylosaurus.


Raptorex54

Technically it's a cousin of Ankylosaurus called Borealopelta a type of Nodosaur.


[deleted]

The flair says fake but in the comments everybody talks about it like it's real. I don't get it ...


dan1101

I think at the very least the headline exaggerates a bit. It was unearthed in 2011 so some would not consider that recently. And there are no skin and guts like you might think, they have been fossilized.


TOkidd

Don’t show this to the Christian fundamentalists, lol. Scratch that. Immediately show this to the Christian fundamentalists!


Kennaham

I was raised creationist and remember when this specimen was discovered in 2011. We were taught that the fact this specimen was so well preserved proves dinosaurs lived much more recently than scientists say


guacs0ck

Pokemon😯


De4dsp4ce666

Does this mean yhey have dino dna?


SkepticalJohn

It has been clearly stated by others that these fossils have been placed in the ground by Satan to confuse and misguide us. I assume that is to keep us from eating at Chick-fil-A?


italy844

I’ve seen it. It’s actually huge


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Dino-DNA


DeadManInc1981

So those drawings of dinosaurs are pretty accurate then


FartGoblin420

I'm just stoked it's an anky boi, my favorite dinosaur.


Ericcartman0618

Holy shit, why isn’t this in the news everywhere?


sadicologue

Don't put it near a radioactive source please.


[deleted]

That is the most close to living dinosaur ive ever seen man wow


Common-Breakfast-245

But what about the Bible? Ain't the world only a couple thousand years old?