This creature is being called the ‘Mona Lisa’ of dinosaurs

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    It took scientists nearly 7,000 hours to exhume what some researchers are now calling the ‘Mona Lisa’ of dinosaurs.

    A report released Thursday described the 110-million-year-old creature as “the best-preserved armored dinosaur ever found, and one of the best dinosaur specimens in the world.”

    Shawn Funk, a mining machine operator in Alberta, Canada, stumbled on the 18-foot-long fossilized creature in 2011, according to AFP. The new species has been dubbed Borealopelta markmitchelli, in honor of Mark Mitchell, the museum technician who spent thousands of hours unearthing the specimen.

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