Fossil of fierce sea creature discovered: Manitoba

by Barry Artiste | August 29, 2008 at 08:13 am | 553 views | 19 comments | 32 recommendations

Opinion

Barry Artiste

Pretty scary stuff kids! An 80 million year old fossil of a fish the size of a friggin school bus discovered in Manitoba is a sight to behold. A Canadian First.

The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, Manitoba has outings for the wanna be Indiana Jones, mostly for kids.

US and Canadian Visitors in the midwest around the Dakotas can visit for a few tankfuls of gas, so much better to spend a day digging for dinosaurs than sitting in front of a computer surfing the net or playing video games. Here are the links below!

The photos posted of individuals are Joe Public who shelled out a couple of hundred bucks for an all inclusive 5 day dig and make their own discovery.

http://www.discoverfossils.com/

http://www.museevirtuel.ca/PM.cgi?searchby=name&LM=MuseumFlash&scope=MuseumFlash&LANG=English&terms=Canadian%20Fossil%20Discovery%20Centre&Referer=About&AP=M_E_display&Page=ABICI.html

Below is the story and source:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/08/28/6597726-sun.html

(Photo Inset) An artist's rendering of a mosasaur, an 80-million-year-old sea creature whose fossilized bones were found near Miami, Man. (Karen Carr, Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre)

August 28, 2008

Fossil of fierce sea creature discovered

By ROB NAY -- Sun Media

A massive prehistoric sea creature has been unearthed in southern Manitoba, marking one of the biggest fossil finds in the province in decades.

Discovered at the beginning of August outside Miami, Man., the mosasaur skeleton measures an estimated 10 to 12 metres in length and dates back about 80 million years.

"They were the fiercest predators, I believe, swimming around," said Anita-Marie Janzic, curator for the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden.

Excavation of the creature, given the name Angus, will continue until October and then will resume again next year. "We've got some substantial pieces," said Janzic.

When alive, the creatures breathed air, had two sets of teeth and could dislocate their jaws at will.

Janzic said the mosasaur, a marine reptile, might be related to modern-day snakes or the Komodo dragon.

It also resembles a large crocodile with fins, she said.

recommend Add a comment

moonwolf

flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 09:44 on August 29th, 2008

Cool stuff!

Barry Artiste

at 09:46 on August 29th, 2008

Thanks Zichi and Moon for stopping by, certainly something to consider if looking for a vacation in country as well and go on a dig and find your own dinosaur/

Barry Artiste

at 09:59 on August 29th, 2008

Reminds me of mah brother skeeter and me, we wuz playin chiken in the backyard rooting around the dirt and found a caveman tent and a dinosaur bone, we even camped in the prehistorik tent, anyhoo we found trases of cave tent with brown crusty paiontings inside the tent, and we gots real excited , even tho it was reel smeelly and old, smelt lahke old farrts, we ran into the trailer to show'd Ma ur caveman tent and Ma says it were jus were a pare o grandmas underware she forgot to warsh, and a dead animal bone Grandma uses as a warshing stick.

Boy, talk about disappointed! Skeetewr cried fer weeks, cuz he found out grandmas warshing stick were his pet dawg Jasper, who died last year.

Life aint fare.

moonwolf

at 10:16 on August 29th, 2008

Bwaaaaahhh!! Sniff! Ya had tuh reemind me abowt thet daydn't ya!

Barry Artiste

at 11:12 on August 29th, 2008

Hay, ya caint bitch slap the barer o bad nudes

moonwolf

at 13:01 on August 29th, 2008

Wanna bet? Ah saw Larry Flint las weak, an beefor he cood blaynk ah dun whakked him up thu syde o thu hayd wiff mu cawpy o Hustler! Tawk abowt bad noodes!