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The Dinosaur Dave on Nostr: This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Spinops In 1916, Charles Hazelius Sternberg and ...

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Spinops

In 1916, Charles Hazelius Sternberg and his son Levi Sternberg found two partial skulls, in a large bone bed near the Red Deer River in southern Alberta.

The fossils were sent to the Natural History Museum in London, and even Charles called them junk. There they sat for almost 100 years.

In 2011, a team led by Dr Andrew A. Farke re-examined the fossils and realised they represented a new species.