DICKINSON, N.D. — Digging up dinosaur fossils means getting into the dirt, often on your knees and under the blazing sun. But seldom has the work ever been more rewarding than a field trip taken to north-central Montana this summer.
Denver Fowler, paleontologist at the Dickinson Museum Center, along with Liz Freedman-Fowler and their four-person volunteer team, returned to Dickinson on Aug. 28, 2017, with 38 jackets of fossils and smaller pieces of fossilized bone. Among them was a dinosaur that was previously unknown to the scientific world — a type of nodosaur from 76 million years ago.
"This will be a new species — it will need a new name because no one has ever found one of these kind of dinosaurs before. We have the skull, which is the most important part to tell what species it is," Denver said.
What they do know is the dinosaur is a relative of the ankylosaurus — a dinosaur with a club on its tail and spikes on its body.
"This one doesn't have a tail club, but it has big spikes on the body and is a member of =read more
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