This experienced plant-eater lumbered through what is now Western Canada about 110 million years ago until a flooded river swept it into the open sea. The dinosaur’s undersea burial preserved its armor in exquisite detail. Its scales still bear turtle-like plates and a gray pattern of fossilized skins.
A groundbreaking event named Shawn Funk stumbled upon the Earth’s treasure on March 21, 2011, without knowing that he would encounter an ancient dragon soon.
That Monday had started like any other at the Millennium Mine, a vast pit some 17 miles north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, operated by energy company Syncrude.
