{"id":10810,"date":"2017-08-08T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2017-08-08T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T22:28:43","slug":"too-damn-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/08\/too-damn-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Damn Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

We may have to consider visiting the Royal\u00a0Tyrrell Museum<\/a> in Alberta. As reported<\/a> by Ed Yong in The Atlantic<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2019d add to their ranks by finding one of the most spectacular dinosaur fossils of all time. It\u2019s an animal so well preserved that its skeleton can\u2019t be seen for the skin and soft tissues that still cover it.<\/p>\n

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\u2014a 110-million-year-old creature named\u00a0Borealopelta<\/em><\/a>\u2014<\/em>imagination isn\u2019t necessary.\u00a0It looks like a sculpture<\/a>. And based on pigments that still lurk within the skin, scientists think they know what colors the animal had. \u201cIf someone wants to come face to face with a dinosaur, and see what it actually looked like, this is the one for that,\u201d says\u00a0Caleb Brown<\/a>\u00a0from the Royal Tyrrell Museum, who has studied the animal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s on display, although I can’t find anything on the Royal Tyrrell<\/strong><\/em> website. Lots more in The Atlantic<\/strong><\/em> article, though.<\/p>\n

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Looks almost like a fake. If it weren’t for the fact the paleontologist and oil mining personnel were present as it was uncovered, I’d ask how they assure authenticity.<\/p>\n

So damn cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We may have to consider visiting the Royal\u00a0Tyrrell Museum in Alberta. As reported by Ed Yong in The Atlantic: 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 \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10812,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions\/10812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}