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The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea

Season 3 Episode 15

Paleontologists have been studying nodosaurs since the 1830s, but nobody had ever found a specimen like Borealopelta before. The key to its exceptional preservation was where it ended up after it died and how it got there.

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