I've never heard of any animal getting swept up in a flood, drowning, turning upside-down and then sinking to the bottom. It's amazing that they could figure that all out.

The Royal Tyrrell Museum is world renowned and is located in what is known as the Canadian Badlands in Drumheller, Alberta. I have visited it and the area and it is amazing, many dinosaur skeletons in various degrees of preservation have been found in Alberta and they go to the Museum for research, preservation and education.

What a remarkable find! A surprise package from the distant past.

I was a dinosaur freak way back! When my age was in single digits.

Heck, it's a dinosaur death mask.

I used to love to catch these wonderful little lizards. Little did I know what their (possible) prehistoric lineage was!

From the artistic rendition in the article of what it would have looked like in life, it was not a critter to be snuggled up to at night.

Because I was reading about MAGA people just before reading this post, I started to wonder what scientists millions of years from now will surmise when they dig human skeletons out of rock, and see that a large portion of the males wore bright red hats. They may think that it was some form of ancient mating ritual -- a visible cue, to let females know that they were available for sex.
And, of course, they would be right.

I wonder if legends of dragons came from the discovery of dinosaur bones and scales, plus an occasional well preserved dinosaur like this. I could imagine people of the past finding these fossils and developing stories about what the creatures were like when alive.