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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sarah Marshall

The new travel craze sparked by a BBC series

A dig team unearths fossilised bones of Pachyrhinosaurus at Pipestone Creek -

I’m crouched at a bone bed in Alberta, Canada, armed with a hammer, awl, and brush, attempting to unearth a piece of history 73 million years old. It’s difficult to comprehend the sheer scale of the 181kg Pachyrhinosaurus skull buried beneath me – the remnants of a creature I’ve only ever encountered in fiction.

Dinosaurs remain one of nature’s greatest enigmas. Their sudden extinction continues to baffle scientists, yet evidence of their existence lies scattered across the globe, often just metres below the surface.

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