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‘Extremely enigmatic’: Melbourne Museum snaps up world-leading triceratops fossil – The Age
The near-complete fossil of a 67 million-year-old adult triceratops will arrive in Melbourne in late 2021 after the museum won a multimillion-dollar battle to secure…
“In the 130 years since triceratops was first brought to light, there have been perhaps four or five other specimens that begin to approach the magnitude, completeness and exceptional quality of preservation,” said Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator of palaeontology.
“This one stands way out in front. It’s going to be a canonical example.”
Museum Victoria Palaeontologist Dr Erich Fitzgerald shows Avery Fitzgerald, 3, from Eltham, a replica of the mandible of the recently acquired near-complete adult…
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