110 MILLION Year Old Dinosaur Found!

It was 18 feet long and built like a tank. Now its mummified remains have emerged from an oil sands mine in Canada.

Meet nodosaur, and what makes the nodosaur unique isn't its size (we get it; dinosaurs were big), but its almost unprecedented state of preservation.
Considering the species  is roughly 110 million years old, what you see is astounding.
For one thing, you don't see bones; most of the skeleton is undetectable because it's covered in fossilized skin and, as the museum describes it, "encased in intact body armour.
"Nodosaurs were herbivores who walked on four legs and were covered in tank-like armor and dotted with spikes for protection, according to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
This nodosaur is a new species and a new genus.
Museum experts say it is the oldest known dinosaur from Alberta and the most well-preserved of the armored dinosaurs ever unearthed.
National Geographic says the mummified nodosaur weighs 2,500 pounds, not far off its 3,000-pound fighting weight estimated by experts. Scientists think this nodosaur may have been swept away by a flooded river and carried out to sea, where it eventually sank. Over millions of years on the ocean floor, minerals took the place of the dinosaur's armor and skin, preserving it in the lifelike form now on display, according to National Geographic.


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