Mysterious mountain dino may be a new species

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This composite shows what bones were found and what the Sustut dinosaur may have looked like 70 million years ago. Credit: University of Alberta Edmonton Canada
This composite shows what bones were found and what the Sustut dinosaur may have looked like 70 million years ago. Credit: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

A partial dinosaur skeleton unearthed in 1971 from a remote British Columbia site is the first ever found in Canadian mountains and may represent a new species, according to a recent examination by a University of Alberta researcher.


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