70-million-year-old fossil found in Canada

70-million-year-old fossil found in Canada

Workers in a mine in Canada have reportedly found a marine reptile (Mosazor) fossil, said to be 70 million years old.

Dan Spivak, Director of the Royal Tyrrell Palaeontological Museum of Canada in the province of Alberta, said workers working in a mine near Lethbridge found a true prehistoric fossil.

Stuck into the rock mass and called the mosazor, the fossil is more of a sea monster than a dinosaur, indicating that Spivak, “This creature, the North Sea continent in the early geological period of the inland sea) lived in the Bearspaw Sea. Based on what we see from animal species, it was a great marine reptile. It looks like a komodo dragon with a slightly sharper nose. ” he said.

Stating that the fossil is 6.5 to 7 meters in size, Spivak said, “The fossil with a skull of 1 meter has sharp sharp teeth. There are no species comparable to that currently living on the planet. A group of animals that are extinct and have no living analogues.” said.

Spivak explained that those who excavated the quarry where the fossil was used in the jewelery sector removed the rainbow stone. They lived in the seas covering a large part of. used the phrase. The director of the museum, Spivak, said that the quarry was closed and that the workers had moved to another part of the mine.

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