Life-sized Bruce the mosasaur replica rolls into Manitoba
A 15-metre long mosasaur sculpture completed its Prairie-wide journey from Alberta to Manitoba Friday.
City of Morden, Man., to erect 15-metre-long blue sculpture of ancient marine reptile
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RAW: Bruce the mosasaur rolls through Morden
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A 15-metre long mosasaur sculpture completed its Prairie-wide journey from Alberta to Manitoba Friday.
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A 15-metre long marine reptile sculpture has completed its Prairie-wide journey from Alberta to Manitoba.
The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre and the city of Morden welcomed the giant blue replica of Bruce the mosasaur into town Friday.
Kids from Morden, Man., welcomed a 50-foot-long replica of Bruce the mosasaur into town Friday. (Peter Cantelon)
About eight months ago, the museum commissioned Dinosaur Valley Studios in Drumheller, Alta., to build a life-sized display based on the skeleton of Bruce, whose 80-million-year-old bones were pulled from a Thornhill, Man., pasture in the 1970s.
The museum initially planned to keep the statue a secret until its unveiling later this summer, but the second it hit the road in Alberta, locals started posting photos online.
People in Morden lined street-sides Friday as it the creature rolled into town.
Officials with the museum say the prop will be put up somewhere in of-site in Morden at the end of July.
A tractor lifted Bruce from the trailor and set him down in the hanger, where he will be looked over and prepared to be mounted in Morden at the end of July. (Peter Cantelon)
