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In 2011, an Excavator Driver Discovered a 110 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Whose "Armor" Was Exceptionally Preserved

Usually, a dinosaur leaves only bones crushed by time. However, it happens that a skin, scales and placards of armor pass through almost intact ages. This is the case of this Canadian battled nodosaur, whose silhouette still holds in three dimensions.
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A dinosaur fossil, ordinary, is a grey and mineralized assemblage, sometimes incomplete, which must be reconstructed with imagination. The reason is simple: the skin, muscles and organs decompose long before the rock had time to freeze them. But in Alberta, a battled animal escaped this [...]

Usually, a dinosaur leaves only bones crushed by time. However, it happens that a skin, scales and placards of armor pass through almost intact ages. This is the case of this Canadian battled nodosaur, whose silhouette still holds in three dimensions.

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news on Monday, October 26, 2026.
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