A dinosaur fossil was discovered this week by a pipeline inspection crew in Alberta, Canada.
The crew was working with a backhoe near the Sprit River when they found a fossilized skeleton of what they believed to be a huge dinosaur.
The worker who discovered the fossil works for the Tourmaline Oil Corp., according to Canadian news site CBC.
The backhoe operator thought he struck a large rock, but after getting out and investigating a little he could tell what he had discovered wasn't ordinary.
The fossil was then taken to Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative paleontologist Dr. Matthew Vavrek, who verified it.
"As we walked around it, we saw this whole part of a tail of a dinosaur," Vavrek said to CNN. "To see something like that is pretty incredible. The last I've seen something like that was in a museum."
Other experts from places like Tyrell Museum, National Geographic, and Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum also verified the tail.
It could take years to verify which species the dinosaur tail belongs to, but executive director of the Currie Dinosaur Museum Brian Brake feels it could have come from a Hadrosaur.
"What we have is a totally composed tail," Brake said, according to CNN. "It's beautiful."
The last specimen to be discovered in Alberta area was a 4,460-pound triceratops fossil. The dig took 12 days to complete, according to the National Post.
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