At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/110-million-year-old-dinosaur-mummy-in-canada-skin-organs-intact-almost-alive/ … at an open pit oil sands operation in Alberta, a nearly complete dinosaur, embedded and turned into stone, was extracted. It is a three dimensional specimen with its skin, armour, keratin sheafs, and even its pigmentation still visible. You have to crack and remove the surrounding stone and crystalised brine first, but paleontologists have had a lot of practise. The one ton armoured herbivore may even have used camouflage to avoid being seen by predators -much bigger. It was excavated in what is known as the Clearwater Formation, a Cretacous period deposit. We are told, or it is speculated more likely, there was a shallow sea in this part of Alberta in the Cretaceous. This is the accepted consensus view as it avoids the idea the water came from the ocean spilling over through North America, in the Arctic as much as the Atlantic and Caribbean. It is said to have drowned our sad speciment and it floated belly up for some time before it eventualy sank to the sea floor and was buried in a dense sedimentary layer. The idea that its pristine nature signified it must have been buried in the tide very quickly is compromised by the belly up floating idea. It was the sediment and its burial that saved the animal from decay and from scavengers.
