Shawn Funk had worked at the oil mining site for years, helping to excavate crude oil in Alberta, Canada. But, one day in 2011, he came across something that changed prehistoric Canadian history for good.
The rock that Funk excavated that day had a bizarre pattern on it, and his supervisor had never seen anything like it before. Knowing that the ground they were excavating hadn’t been touched by humans in millions of years, they called the Royal Tyrrell Museum for some answers…