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Archaeologists in 2011 discovered one of the largest, perhaps the most preserved dinosaur fossils to date, almost a complete ankylosaur featuring sharp spikes...
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the majority of its limbs, an armor covering, and a few of its stomach and gut contents.
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The fascinating thing, however? Its flawlessly preserved skin and face.
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Mark Mitchell, a technician at the Royal Tyrell Museum, took an incredible 7,000 hours and six years to carefully remove the fossil by carefully cutting away the surrounding stone.
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To honor his work, he got a new species known as nodosaur, a kind of ankylosaur named in his honor: Borealopelta mark Mitchell.
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"During preparation, I would piece together the blocks like a puzzle, and the animal started to really take shape," Mitchell said in a new interview, describing the painstaking process.
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