| Dinosaur
Expedition 2000 will be focussed on the collection of a prosauropod
dinosaur specimen discovered at the site in 1998. This specimen
is the third dinosaur specimen to be collected from a small bone bed the
Museum researchers have been studying for several years.
From this expedition, researchers
hope to recover the entire dinosaur skeleton which is currently in danger
due to the fast erosion at the site. The tremendously high tides
in the Parrsboro area, rising and falling almost 10 meters with each tide,
cause the cliff at the research site to erode at an estimated 1 meter per
year.
This specimen will be another
important piece of the story this site has recently revealed. What
caused these three dinosaur skeletons to be buried here 200 million years
ago? Questions like this will take years to answer, but it all starts
with work like Dinosaur Expedition 2000,
and the collecting of these important fossils. |
