Alberta construction crew finds fossilized remains of another hadrosaur

LEDUC, Alta. – It appears that you can’t dig a deep hole in Alberta without finding a duck-billed dinosaur.

For the second time in weeks a construction crew has discovered the fossilized remains of a hadrosaur, a plant-eating creature that stalked the Earth about 68 million years ago.

The latest discovery happened in Leduc, a city south of Edmonton.

A crew building a housing development found the fossils and called the Royal Tyrrell Museum to report their find.

Museum curator Francois Therrien says this dinosaur was a teenager when it died and is about eight-metres-long.

Last month a pipeline crew in northwestern Alberta uncovered the fossils of a larger and older hadrosaur, a dinosaur that was almost as common during the Cretaceous era as deer are today.