A paleontology team from the Royal BC Museum found over 90 bones from various species
After three years of exploration, a paleontology team from the Royal BC Museum uncovered a trove of fossils in the rugged terrain of the Skeena Mountains in Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park.
Yet, reaching the site has proven to be a challenge, said Victoria Arbour, curator of paleontology at the Royal BC Museum and lead researcher on the project. Blizzards in 2019 and a major wildfire in 2023 hindered the team's work. The fossil site, located at an altitude of 2,000 metres, is accessible only by helicopter.
“We’re excited to start figuring out what species we may have found - these could be examples of T. rex and Triceratops known from elsewhere in Canada and the U.S., or they could be entirely new species not yet known to science,” she said. While the bones of coastal-dwelling dinosaurs were eventually buried and conveniently preserved in sediment layers at the bottoms of creeks and rivers, mountain fossils remained exposed to the elements.
“A lot of those specimens are still encased in rock or at least have some rock on them so we'll be using special tools to get all the rock off so we can see the bones.”
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