Article 2PJ7C Alberta museum unveils world's best-preserved armoured dinosaur

Alberta museum unveils world's best-preserved armoured dinosaur

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Ashifa Kassam in Toronto
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Fossil of 18ft nodosaur found in 2011 in Alberta's tar sands goes on display after 7,000 hours of reconstruction work

It has been compared to a dinosaur mummy, a lifelike sculpture and even a dragon from Game of Thrones.

Now, 110 million years after it died, the 18ft-long nodosaur - hailed as the best-preserved armoured dinosaur in the world - has been unveiled at a Canadian museum.

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