72 million-year-old giant dinosaur skull weighing 600 pounds discovered

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72 million-year-old giant dinosaur skull weighing 600 pounds discovered
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Paleontologists unearth a massive 600-pound dinosaur skull in Alberta, Canada. The 72-million-year-old fossil belongs to a Pachyrhinosaurus.

The 600-pound skull was so heavy, it had to be wheeled from the dig site to the transport vehicle.Recently, an exciting discovery emerged from “one of the densest dinosaur beds in North America:” a dinosaur skull weighing 600 pounds has been unearthed.

They named it “Big Sam,” a nod to this “smaller, older cousin” of the beloved cartoon character, given its status as the largest example of its kind unearthed in the Grand Prairie area of the Badlands. , these herbivores, comparable in size to Indian elephants and rhinos, roamed Alberta’s badlands approximately 70 million years ago. Emily Bamforth emphasized the uniqueness of this phenomenon, stating that such a site is unparalleled anywhere else in the world.

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