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BC Dinosaur Interview
BC dinosaur interview: Reporter ‐ Hayley Dunning (HD) and Researcher – Victoria Arbour (VA)
HD:
So
you
(or
someone)
found
the
jaw
of
a
flying
dinosaur
in
BC?
VA:
That’s
right,
although
it’s
not
actually
a
dinosaur,
it’s
actually
like
a
pterodactyl,
and
we
call
them
pterosaurs.
They’re
not
dinosaurs,
but
they’re
the
closest
evolutionary
cousins
to
dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs
and
pterosaurs
have
a
common
ancestor
but
they’re
not
the
same
thing.
The
specimen
was
found
by
someone
called
Sharon
Hubbard,
and
the
place
that
it’s
from
is
called
Hornby Island.
At
that
location
you
find
these
little
nodules,
little
concretions
of
rock
and
people
will
go
out
and
look
for
them
and
crack
them
open
and
sometimes
they
have
fossils
inside.
A
lot
of
the
time
you
find marine
animals
like
clams
or
ammonites
or
crabs
of
things
like
that,
but
this
time
they
cracked
it
open and it
had
this
jaw
inside
of
it‐
That’s
kind
of
unusual
and
that’s
when
it
got
brought
to
our
attention.
HD:
When
was
it
discovered?
VA:
Probably
about
7
or
8
years
ago.
I
got
involved
with
the
project
in
2007.
HD:
I
guess
you
haven’t
been
working
just
on
the
jaw,
are
there
some
other
finds
from
that
area?
VA:
Well
it’s
the
first
thing
I’ve
worked
on
from
southern
BC,
a
couple
of
years
ago
I
actually
wrote
a
paper
talking
about
the
first
dinosaur
remains
from
BC,
and
those
are
from
a
place
north‐central
called
the
Sustut
Basin.
That’s
why
Phil
(Currie)
asked
me
to
be
involved
in
describing
this
specimen.
Even
though
I started
talking
about
it
in
2007,
and
it’s
now
2011,
that’s
because
I
also
work
on
armoured
dinosaurs, that’s
my
thesis,
so
this
has
been
sort
of
like
a
side
project.
It
takes
a
while
to
get
these
things
worked on
sometimes;
we
had
to
prepare
it
a
little
bit
more
because
we
had
to
have
a
bit
more
detail
exposed,
and for
a
long
time
we
didn’t
know
what
it
was,
so
it
took
us
a
really
long
time
to
get
on
track
with
what
kind of
animal
it
was
before
we
even
began
writing
the
paper.
HD:
How
did
you
figure
out
in
the
end
that
it
was
part
of
a
flying
reptile,
especially
when
there
were
no
others
found
in
BC?
VA:
We
basically
just
read
a
lot
of
scientific
papers
over
a
long
time,
and
I
have
a
friend
here, Derek
Larson,
and
he
worked
on
dinosaur
teeth
and
teeth
of
other
things
from
different
places
in
Alberta, and
one
day
he
just
said
to
me
“Well,
have
you
tried
any
pterosaur
papers?”
and
I
said
“No,
but
maybe
I should.”
So
I
did,
and
not
too
long
after
that
suggestion
I
came
across
a
paper
describing
a
pterosaur
from China
from
the
early
Cretaceous,
and
when
I
looked
at
it
I
thought
“You
know
that
looks
pretty
similar
to
what
we
have”.
I
started
to
re‐orient
what
I
was
looking
at
in
the
specimen
–
so
originally
what
I
thought
for
a
long
time
might
be
a
lower
jaw,
when
I
looked
at
that
specimen
I
kind
of
flipped
it
around
and
went
“Aha!
It’s
an
upper
jaw.”
And
then
things
started
to
move
pretty
quickly
and
I
found
more
papers
and
more animals
that
looked
similar
and
it
just
kind
of
went
from
there.
HD:
What
precise
time
period
is
this
pterosaur
from?
VA:
So
it’s
from
the
Late
Cretaceous,
its
rocks
from
the
Campanian,
about
70
million
years
ago.
The neat
thing
is
it’s
about
the
same
age
and
the
famous
dinosaur
localities
in
Alberta
like
Dinosaur
Provincial
Park.
It’s
from
a
similar
time
period
but
a
different
geographic
location,
so
it’s
kind
of interesting
that
there’s
different
things
there.
HD:
I
read
that
it’s
the
first
pterosaur
in
BC,
but
are
there
others
elsewhere
in
Canada?
VA:
We
have
some
really
fragmental
stuff
from
Dinosaur
Provincial
Park,
but
it
belonged
to
a
different
kind
of
pterosaur
which
is
a
giant
pterosaur,
so
this
is
the
pterosaur
that’s
like
the
size
of
a
small
aeroplane.
It’s
really
cool
but
it’s
also
found
in
the
United
States.
So
we
have
some
of
that
species in
Canada,
but
this
one
in
BC
is
the
first
one
that’s
unique
to
Canada,
so
we
were
pretty
excited
about that.
HD:'
I
noticed
also
there
was
a
little
controversy
about
the
finder...
VA:
Yeah,
actually
there
isn’t
much
controversy;
basically
what
happened
was
we
made
a
bit
of
an
error
in
who
actually
collected
the
specimen.
So
in
the
paper
we
said
that
Graham
Beard
collected
it,
he’s the
one
that
brought
in
to
our
attention
because
he
runs
a
museum
out
there,
and
Sharon
Hubbard
is
the collector.
So
we’ve
been
just
working
to
make
sure
that
people
understand
that
she
was
the
one
that
collected
the
specimen.
But
beyond
that
there
isn’t
really
much
controversy
because
it
was
just
a
mistake that
we
feel
bad
about.
HD:
I
read
that
she
was
a
bit
angry
about
it...
VA:
Yeah
and
understandably
so,
it’s
important
that
we
give
the
right
credit.
HD:
As
far
as
being
a
new
species
and
being
a
pterosaur
in
BC,
which
you
haven’t
found
before,
does
it
say
something
unique
about
what
kind
of
environment
or
what
else
existed
there
at
that
time?
VA:
The
reason
that
I’m
really
excited
about
it
is
that
it
means
maybe
we’re
going
to
find
more
land-dwelling
animals
from
that
time
period
in
that
area.
A
few
years
ago
there
was
a
paper
that
talked
about some
fossil
bird
bones
in
the
same
formation,
now
we’ve
got
pterosaurs,
so
we’re
learning
a
little
bit
about
the
animals
that
were
flying
around
that
area,
which
is
pretty
cool
because
we
don’t
normally
find
that,
even
in
Alberta.
If
I
could
wish
for
something
it
would
be
really
cool
if
we
did
start
to
find
some dinosaur
material
in
that
formation.
If
we’re
finding
pterosaurs
and
birds,
there’s
a
good
chance
we’re going
to
eventually
find
a
dinosaur.
But
again
its
marine
sediments
which
means
things
have
to
be
washing
in
or
falling
in.
So
it
just
increases
our
knowledge
of
what
was
living
there
at
the
time,
and
it
was
something
quite
unexpected,
so
that’s
what
got
us
so
excited
about
it.
I
would
never
have
guessed
that
that would
be
what
we
would
pick
up
off
the
beach
there.
HD:
I
noticed
some
press
releases
also
come
with
a
really
nice
picture
[attached],
how
did
that
come about?
VA:
That’s
actually
something
I
drew.
The
reason
we
did
that
is,
when
we
finished
writing
the
paper
I knew
I
wanted
to
do
a
press
release,
because
it’s
a
cool
find
and
I
wanted
people
in
BC
to
know
about
it. But
the
specimen
itself
doesn’t
photograph
really
well;
it’s
actually
not
a
really
pretty
specimen
to
look at.
It’s
cool
if
you
know
what
it
is,
but
it’s
quite
small
and
it
has
long
teeth
but
they’re
also
small,
and
it’s
hard
to
visualise
what
that
animal
would
have
looked
like
from
that
fossil
unless
you’re
a specialist
in
the
field.
So
I
wanted
to
have
a
picture
that
would
give
people
an
idea
of the
shape
of
the animal,
because
all
the
people
know
what
dinosaurs
look
like
but
they
might
not
know
what
pterosaurs
looked like.
The
drawing
is
a
little
bit
of
a
guess,
because
we
only
have
the
tip
of
the
snout,
but
overall
it’s probably
what
the
animal
looked
like
in
shape.
HD:
How
big
do
you
think
the
animal
was?
VA:
We’re
got
the
tip
of
the
snout,
which
is
about
10cm
long,
so
I
would
estimate
the
skull
is
at least
50‐60cm,
and
the
wingspan
was
maybe
around
3m.
He
would
be
a
medium‐sized
pterosaur.
HD:
Is
there
anything
you
wanted
to
add?
VA: It was a lot of fun to work on the project. British Colombia has a lot of really cool fossils that we don’t hear as much about because of course here in Alberta we have Dinosaur Provincial Park and all the great dinosaur finds going on, but this shows us that BC has a lot of interesting things going on as well – we should definitely keep looking for stuff. I hope that people are excited about it because I was and it’s an interesting find.