CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks Show has a segment about an amazing fossil dinosaur specimen.  It’s one of the best preserved dinosaur fossils ever found and was discovered in Alberta, Canada.  The animal is a nodosaur that lived about 110 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period.  The detail is such that researchers can determine what type of camouflage it employed.

Research Paper in Current Biology.

It weighed a tonne and a half, was five meters long, was covered in thick, bony armour and spikes, and still it had to hide from the terrifying predators of its time. A new dinosaur discovered in Alberta, and unveiled at the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller, Alberta, is so well preserved that the scientists who’ve been studying it have been able to tell that it had a kind of camouflage common in much smaller and more vulnerable prey species today.