Dinosaur Fossils Found in Oil Mining Area

EDMONTON - Crew oil fields in Alberta , Canada , claimed to have found the oldest fossilized dinosaur , hadrosaur . While working , stop digging miner operator to prevent damage to the fossils of ancient animals .

Reported by the Examiner , Friday ( 04/10/2013 ) , the crew Tourmaline Oil Corporation spinal hadrosaur found near the town of Spirit River, Alberta . The findings are reported in the Edmonton Journal .

The equipment operator observes something unusual and stopped digging to prevent major damage to the fossil vertebrae by 90 feet long . Matthew Vavrek , head paleontologist examining fossils of these ancient animals .

The researchers claim this is probably one of the most complete fossil hadrosaur ever discovered and pure . Hardosaur a dinosaur with a beak like a duck and eat plants ( herbivores ) .

The animals believed to have lived in Canada and North America between 145 and 66 million years ago . Currently , the crew of miners with paleontologists are working to remove fossils from the site .

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