The renowned Alberta paleontologist is becoming increasingly confident he will find a fully intact skeleton of a Troodon dinosaur in the County of Grande Prairie, where he's leading a major dig next summer at Pipestone Creek. "We find its teeth all the time up in the Grande Prairie region, yet in the rest of Alberta, it's a pretty rare dinosaur," Currie said Friday. In Alberta, Currie estimates only about 10 per cent of a Troodon skeleton has been unearthed. "Troodon was a very advanced little dinosaur," Currie said. So far, a dozen different kinds of dinosaurs have been discovered in the Grande Prairie region — remarkable considering that paleontologists have only been digging there since 1976.

Source: CBC News November 26, 2016 12:56 UTC