An Outlook woman came across a very interesting find while she was enjoying the outdoors near town in the fall of 2016, discovering an unusual fossil while she was walking her dog.
Perhaps even more incredible is the fact that Cara Drury may have found something that belongs to the same specimen in the middle of last month.
Drury explained in an email to this reporter:
"In the fall of 2016, I found an unusual fossil while walking my dog on the sandbars near town. I brought the fossil home and contacted the Royal Saskatchewan Museum T. Rex Discovery Center in Eastend. The palaeontologists there said the fossil contained several vertebrae from a plesiosaur (loch ness monster type marine reptile) as well as a baculite (marine cephalopod). The fossil is estimated to be 72-74 million years old. The rock formation that the fossil came from is the Bearpaw formation. I donated this fossil to the provincial collection in Eastend.
Side note - dinosaurs walked on land, and if it swam, it is called a marine reptile.
Last week, I was out on the sandbars and found another fossil containing vertebrae that looks to be from the same individual. I have contacted Eastend again and will donate this fossil to their collection as well. Each spring, the sandbars shift and expose different rocks. I was just lucky to find this one before the water rises with spring runoff."
