A Dinosaur So Well Preserved, It Looks Like a Statue! Borealopelta, discovered accidentally by Canadian miners, is one of the most spectacular fossil finds of all time. In March 2011, a construction worker named Shawn Funk visited an impressive dinosaur collection at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta. As he walked through halls full of ancient bones, he had no idea that a week later, he’d add to their ranks by finding one of the most spectacular dinosaur fossils of all time. It’s an animal so well preserved that its skeleton can’t be seen for the skin and soft tissues that still cover it. When we look at dinosaurs in museums, it takes imagination to plaster flesh and skin on top of the bones. But for the dinosaur that Funk unearthed—a 110-million-year-old creature named Borealopelta—imagination isn’t necessary. It looks like a sculpture. And based on pigments that still lurk within the skin, scientists think they know what colors the animal had. “If someone wants to come face to face with a dinosaur, and see what it actually looked like, this is the one for that,” says Caleb Brown from the Royal Tyrrell Museum, who has studied the animal. According National Geographic, which sponsored the five-year, 7,000-hour preparation of the fossil, it’s likely that the 3,000-pound,18-foot-long creature died in or near a river. Then its bloated carcass floated out to sea before sinking back-first into the muck where fossilization began. 𝐓𝐚𝐠 @PlanetDinosaurs \ #PlanetDinosaurs 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 📲 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬 👇 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 @PrehistoricEarth 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 @WildActions 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 @Discovery_HD #borealopelta #nodosaur #museum #canada #dinosaurs #dinosaursofinstagram #dinosaurios #jurassicpark #spinosaurus #jurassicworld #jurassicworlddominion #trex #dinoworld #ancienthistory #prehistoricanimals #animals #paleontology #lion #tyrannosaurusrex #tiger #archaeology #mammal #fossil #prehistoricearth #planetdinosaurs #prehistoricplanet #paleoart #smilodon #sabertoothedtiger - @planetdinosaurs