Morden mosasaur world’s largest
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He’s 80 million years old, and there’s no question he’s a fossil, but Bruce the mosasaur has never been more cool.
The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre (CFDC) in Morden, home to Bruce since the fossil’s discovery in 1974, has been awarded with a Guinness World Record for having the largest mosasaur on display in the world.
The 13-metre-long fossil, discovered in Thornhill, west of Morden, was determined by museum researchers recently to be larger than his nearest competitor, Bunker, a 12-metre mosasaur on display at the Oceans of Kansas in the United States.
“It’s overwhelming, and there’s a neat connection between fossils and the Guinness Book of World Records, because both bring out the kid in you. The response that we’ve had has been just what we thought it would be, and somehow Bruce is just that much cooler now,” said CFDC executive director Peter Cantelon, noting the museum’s own researchers worked in partnership with paleontologists from the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller to determine Bruce was more than just the largest in Canada.
CFDC staff sent their research to Guinness, which responded about six weeks later and has awarded the museum a certificate that will be on display in Bruce’s exhibit.
“The work that we do here on a scientific level, on an education level, has always been, from our perspective, world class,” Cantelon said. “When you add something like the Guinness Book of World Records to it, it somehow lends a new magic to it.”
Bruce represents the largest and most ferocious of marine predators from the late Cretaceous period. With four sets of terrifying and enormous teeth, the mosasaur is sometimes referred to as the Sea-Rex.
Cantelon said Morden has something that “cannot be seen anywhere else on the planet.
“It’s great for Manitoba, and it’s great for Canada.”
The centre houses the largest collection of marine reptile fossils in Canada.
ashley.prest@freepress.mb.ca