Testing
While Shawn would have loved to hold onto his unearthed dinosaur, the pieces were taken back to the technicians base at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. There, the petrified dino would undergo various testing and research. After some initial examinations, it was determined that the creature was alive somewhere around 110 million years ago! They also found it was an armored plant-eater type.
Canadian Born
The researchers realized that armored plant-eaters were typically found in parts of western Canada, so they began looking there for similarities. After some studying, they decided that what they had on their hands was a beast from the genus Ankylosaurus. After dying in western Canada those millions of years ago, it was likely swept away by a flood and sank to the bottom of an ocean from the prehistoric era.
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