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110-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Is So Well Preserved, It Could Be Napping!

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Perfectly preserved Borealopelta markmitchelli (Photo Credit: Royal Tyrell Museum)

Over a 100 million years ago, an 18-foot (5.48 meter) long, 2,500-pound (1,133 kg) pineapple-shaped dinosaur met an untimely death when it was swept away by a river in what is now Alberta, Canada. Fortunately for us, its body ended up situated back-first on the muddy floor of an old seaway. This helped preserve the ancient behemoth’s front half in such extraordinary 3-D detail that the armored dinosaur almost looks alive.