Peter Cantelon, Executive Director of the CFDC said, they made the discovery after conducting some comparative analysis with other mosasaur exhibits around the world, and “after doing a little research and consulting with mosasaur expert Royal Tyrrell Museum palaeontologist, Dr. Takuya Konishi, it turned out Bruce was even more significant than we realized.”
T. Rex of the sea
Mosasaurs were huge air-breathing, flesh-eating, scaly lizards, often described as the T. Rex of the sea. They swam in Canada’s western interior seaway between 65 million and 135 million years ago. Their name comes from the Meuse River in Europe, where the first mosasaurs were discovered.
Bruce’s name comes from a love of Monty Python. The team that discovered him in 1974 near Thornhill, just west of Morden, were passionate fans of the British comedy troupe. Bruce measures 13.10 metres, and has been known to scare small children when his roar is piped in over the sound system.
80 million and 40th birthday
The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre is currently running the Dino Day camp and next Saturday, on his birthday, the children will present medals they’ve made to honour him as the “Worlds Largest Mosasaur”.
The centre has over a thousand marine reptile fossil specimens and is connected to 32 digs currently under-way in the surrounding landscape.
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