Construction Worker Digs Up Mind-Blowing Key to the Prehistoric Era

Heavy Hitter

This creature wasn't a small one either. If anything it was massive, and not just because it stood over nine feet tall. When the Nodosaur was alive, it probably weighed about 3,000 pounds. Mummified in its stone-like petrified state, the dinosaur weighs just around 2,500 pounds. From what they can gather based on the evidence, paleontologists believe it would have been fairly solitary in nature. 

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