Whats so special about a dinosaur named Leonardo?
In 2000, members of a Judith River Dinosaur Institute expedition found a fossil — a 77-million-year-old duckbill dinosaur, more officially known as Brachylophosaurus canadensis. The team named the specimen Leonardo after some nearby graffiti: “Leonard Webb loves Geneva Jordan 1916.” Leonardo wasn’t full-grown — it was probably only 3 or 4 years old when it died. Dinosaur Image Gallery Leonardo’s body was embedded high in a canyon wall in Montana. Twenty diggers worked for more than nine weeks to remove the rock from around the fossil, and they had some high-powered help. A demolition crew used explosives to free the
