One more skeleton of a dinosaur has been found in the southern part of Edmonton. This is the second major discovery in Alberta within a month.

Construction workers who were building one housing development discovered the dinosaur fossil which, according to palaeontologists, seems to be a hadrosaur fossil. It was in Leduc situated around 35 kilometres south of Edmonton. A hadrosaur was a duck-billed dinosaur which used to roam in the western part of North America around 68 million years back. They were about 12 metres long.

The Royal Tyrell Museum was called on Oct 23 by Degner Construction when their workers dug a trench for building the housing development and found a number of fossils under the surface. Workers used an excavator then for removing the rock, soil and every other material just above the dinosaur fossil.

It was only on Oct 6 that some of the skull elements, hips and the tail of the dinosaur fossil were removed as well as taken to the museum situated at Drumheller, Alta. Now the fossil is going to be kept in the museum as those are going to be available for further study. The executive director of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Andrew Neuman, admitted that 2013 had been a wonderful year in terms of discovering dinosaur fossils.

Heather Klimchuk, the minister of culture of Alberta, has appreciated the construction company as it was sensible enough to take the most appropriate steps to preserve the fossil. She said that Alberta could never be able to preserve and protect valuable resources related to palaeontology without the support of the public and the industry.

The earlier fossil was found at Spirit River near Grande Prairie on Oct 1 by a pipeline crew. The dinosaur fossil was 10 metres long. One of the pipeline workers thought he had broken a piece of rock when he got a part of the fossil. However, when he kept on digging, he exposed the entire fossil.