Montana Dinosaur Sees Shadow After 95 Million Year Winter

Add one cool new dinosaur to the ever increasing population of dead ones they’ve found spending eternity in Montana. This behemoth was a 7 foot mama lizard with two scaly juveniles, the first burrowing dinosaurs ever discovered. (You think you’ve got mole problems?) Our latest native family was found near Lima, in southwest Montana.

No speculation as to the reason for death of these herbivores, although spending 95 million years in a hole with your two kids would give anybody a serious migraine.

Montana State University paleontologist David Varricchio, lead author for the study says that the existence of a burrowing dinosaur suggests the possibility that some species would have survived past the Cretaceous age [after that nasty asteroid hit], but only if they still had access to food sources. (Well, there you go. Wal-Mart Supercenters didn’t start arriving in Montana until a few years ago.)

Read the details of this interesting discovery at Mongabay.com. And then follow the The Montana Dinosaur Trail and Judith River Dinosaur Institute links to other creatures too terrifying to describe here.