Artifact Title: Borealopelta
Medium: Video
Creator: The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology
Video Length: 51:12
Video Title: The World's Best Preserved Armoured Dinosaur
Upload Year: 2018
Platform: YouTube
Screenshot in Image: 16:11
Uploader: Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Image Credit: Daphne Moss
YouTube: The World's Best Preserved Armoured Dinosaur
The New York Times: ‘Dinosaur Mummy’ Emerges From the Oil Sands of Alberta
TERA Curator: Judith Ellen Brunton
Borealopelta
The fossil remains of this creature, named Borealopelta by the paleontologists who unearthed it, was discovered in the Suncor oil sands mine in Fort McMurrary. News coverage of these remains would, at times, call the creature’s body a “Mummy.” What might this label tell us about how we treat the dead, ritual relationships with remains, and museological practices in relation to bodies? What might it mean that the oil industry is a gravekeeper here—or a grave-robber?