Open the old newspaper package, shocked by the extremely rare 70-million-year-old 'treasure'
According to hasty notes, these fossils have been found since the 1920s and for unknown reasons have been forgotten for decades, Phys.org reported.
A pile of old furniture, sketchy newspaper packages, dumped in the warehouse of the University of Alberta (Canada) for decades has just been identified as extremely valuable archaeological treasures - fossils of rare monsters from the world. Cretaceous period.
According to hasty notes, these fossils have been found since the 1920s and for unknown reasons have been forgotten for decades, Phys.org reported.
20 packs of newspapers with pencil notes are veritable paleontological treasures
Paleontologist Clive Coy from the University of Alberta's Department of Science - said they were surprised when the fossils were "excavated again". The archaeological treasures include 20 fossil fragments, unearthed during the 1920-1921 expedition led by the first University of Alberta paleontologist Dr. George Strernberg.
Newspaper packages have just been found while clearing the warehouse
Most notable among the specimens are three ancient turtle skulls belonging to an extremely rare species, unearthed in a quarry in the upper Judith River region in southern Alberta and Montana.
100 years ago, scientists only suspected that the place contained a large amount of fossils. Up to now, the top layer of sediment has been identified as a treasure of Cretaceous sediments. At that time, the area was still submerged in the shallow ocean, thus hosting many rare marine life and amphibians.
The specimens, which are more than 70 million years old, are still being analyzed by scientists.
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