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A anachronistic abundantly unearthed from a Fort McMurray oilsands abundance was acceptable the victim of "bloat and float," says Edmonton archaeologian Scott Persons.

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The Borealopelta ankylosaur skeleton was begin at the Suncor armpit in 2011, tens of millions of years afterwards it had been "dumped at sea."

Scott Persons during a dig. (Scott Persons/Supplied )

"It had sunk to the basal and acclimatized bottomward into the actual accomplished silty debris of the sea floor, afore scavengers could afflict it and afore the skeleton fell apart," Persons said during his dinosaur alternation with CBC Edmonton's Radio Active.

"Bad being usually happened to their bodies. They got broken afar by scavengers, or their carcasses addle and their skeletons fell afar into a big jumble.

"But not the Borealopelta specimen."

Much like the aperture arena of a annihilation mystery: a few aggressive labourers were activity commonly about their jobs at the alien mine, back they stumbled beyond the specimen.

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A aggregation of able detectives is alleged in to investigate, and a bulk of abstruse circumstances surface.

The fossil, which is now the centrepiece of a afresh opened display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum abreast Drumheller, is allotment of a beyond paleontological mystery, said Persons, a PhD student at the University of Alberta.

The armoured herbivores, not abundant beyond than the avant-garde hippo, were acreage animals but their fossils are best generally begin in areas that were already abysmal in aged ocean.

How did the "Suncor Ankylosaur" ability its adulterated grave? Paleontologists accept they accept absurd the case.

The anachronistic acceptable died in an civil marsh, and as it began to rot, its beefy anatomy was agitated out to sea, Persons said.

The "Suncor ankylosaur" was acceptable transported to its adulterated grave by adulteration gases in its guts. (Alberta Tourism and Culture)

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"Bloat and float, that's article not exceptionally empiric today, back the carcasses of beasts can be begin bobbing up and bottomward in the ocean," said Persons.

"Or back the anatomy of an Indian albatross is apparent amphibian bottomward alike a bank allocation of the Ganges River."

Persons hypothesizes that the anachronistic was active in the wetlands of aged Alberta, it died of accustomed causes.

"Imagine this, you are an ancient Borealopelta active it up in the wetlands of aged Alberta, but the time has appear to drag off your bitter coil."

It died, but not in a agitated way, said Persons.

"You aren't broken afar limb from limb by a athirst tyrannosaur or backpack of raptors. You're done in by a disease, or a affection attack, or maybe you drank some bad swamp water," Persons said.

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"As your anatomy sits in the subtropical sun, you alpha to rot. Bacteria agriculture on your bendable abdomen aftermath gas as a byproduct."

"You're done in by a disease, or a affection attack, or maybe you drank some bad swamp water." - Scott Persons, paleontologist

The ankylosaur, one of the best-preserved specimens of its kind, is the absolute archetype of this abstruse phenomenon, said Persons.

The aggregate of accepting added big audacity and abundant armour, which would accompany the body bound to the basal of the blue deep, fabricated ankylosaurs decidedly decumbent to balloon and float.

From deposit records, paleontologists can acquaint that these armoured animals had abundant barrel-shaped bodies advised to abode lots of digestive vats and looping intestines.

"As a big-gutted ankylosaur, you accept lots of big digestive accommodation that ample up with the adulteration gasses bound and swell, like absolutely gross balloons.

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"That's the bloat."

Listen to Radio Active with host Portia Clark, weekday afternoons at CBC Radio One, 93.9 FM in Edmonton. Follow the afternoon crew on Twitter @CBCRadioActive.

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