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David, Jeremy, Kentaro, Mark at Milk River canyon |
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Digging and bagging micro-vertebrates |
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First bone, horned dinosaur rib |
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History TV interviews David Evans |
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Jackhammering and shovelling |
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Off to work in the Quarry |
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Pachycephalosaur site in Verdigris Coulee |
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Prospecting at Lost River |
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Red Deer River from Buffalo Jump |
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Sweetgrass Hills of Montana |
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Helicopter used to lift jacket in Dinosaur Provincial
Park, Alberta
After 75 million years the skeletal
remains of a
Daspletosaurus
were on the move. On December 13, 2011, the Dinosaur Research Institute arranged
for a helicopter to lift a plaster jacket, weighing 350 kg (800 lbs.) out of the
badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park.
The plaster jacket protected the
pelvis of Daspletosaurus,
a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, and is part of a skeleton that was
collected by
University of Alberta during fieldwork in 2010
and 2011. The Daspletosaurus was found in the Oldman Formation, and is
considered to be quite rare. The pelvis has been taken to Edmonton where it will
be prepared along with the rest of the skeleton.
Alpine Helicopters of Calgary was
contracted to perform the work because of the site’s remote location and the
technical difficulties involved in extracting the pelvis using ground-based
methods.
