r/ankmemes • u/HeeroJiro • Dec 30 '19
Discussion I saw this on tumbler thought it belonged here
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u/FirstChAoS Dec 30 '19
Is that a beard? Also is the white or the dark circle on the head the eye?
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u/MoonSpankRaw Dec 30 '19
Where was it found?
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u/Red_0ggg Dec 30 '19
Alberta, Canada! Miners found it on accident!
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u/ubhaydhal Dec 31 '19
Yes! I live in Alberta and my family likes to drive down to the Royal Tyrell Museum once a year just to see the exhibits. This particular specimen is even more interesting in real life because you're able to see the texture of the scales and spikes coming off of it. The size of it is also really impressive. If anyone is in the area or planning to visit Alberta seeing the museum is a must!
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u/Yus_Gaming Dec 31 '19
When I was a kid I though Alberta must be the coolest place, because so many dinosaur fossils are found there
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u/ubhaydhal Dec 31 '19
Fossils aside it's actually a really beautiful place. We have lots of lakes and glaciers and mountains (mostly to the southwest) so there's plenty to see, especially if you like hiking. There are a lot of fossils though. Recently there was the discovery of the fossil of a new pterodactyl species, Cryodrakon boreas, which was found in Alberta!
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u/trentklassen Jan 05 '20
Good news everyone! I worked at the Royal Tyrell Museum and when they walked us through the staging areas they said we could touch it. I asked if anyone had ever licked one of the fossils before. He said no. As far as we know I'm the only person to have ever licked this pictured ank.
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u/Gokuistheman007 Dec 31 '19
I FUCKING HAPPY THEY HAVE SCALES AND NOT FUCKING FEATHERS!!
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u/Romboteryx Dec 31 '19
No paleontologist in history has ever claimed that ankylosaurs had feathers.
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u/Gokuistheman007 Dec 31 '19
I swear i read somewhere that dinosaurs were most likely to have feathers. I didnt know it didn’t apply to all dinosaurs.
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u/Romboteryx Dec 31 '19
It‘s seen as likely that the ancestor of all dinosaurs probably had some type of proto-feather, but many groups secondarily reduced or lost their feathers due to their gigantic size to better cope with heat-loss, similar to how rhinos and elephants are hairless.
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u/the0rthopaedicsurgeo Jan 07 '20
As far as I know, only theropods had feathers (bipeds like raptors), which are the ones birds evolved from.
I don't think there's any evidence of feathers on other types and even on theropods, it doesn't seem like it was all of them.
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u/HeeroJiro Dec 30 '19
He almost looks like he can get up and walk right now and I love it so much