After news broke about the confirmation of an entirely new species of dinosaur, a X account in its name appeared online.
Buster the Dinosaur has the X handle @Ferrisaurus and had seven followers as of Thursday morning, about three hours after the first tweet.
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Buster is the first dinosaur species unique to the province and was discovered in 1971 near the Sustut River in northern B.C. At the Royal BC Museum, curator of palaeontology Victoria Arbour identified the dinosaur with the new scientific name ‘Ferrisaurus sustutensis,’ meaning “the iron lizard from the Sustut River.” But Arbour prefers to call the dinosaur Buster.
“It’s pronounced ‘Fair-uh-sawr-us’ NOT ‘Ferry-saurus’ OK??” Buster’s X bio says.
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Arbour led an expedition to the Sustut River two years ago, searching near the Sustut basin to find the site where Buster’s claw was discovered nearly 50 years earlier. Arbour has been able to use Buster’s bones and other fossils from the region to learn about B.C. 67 million years ago.
“For the record, palaeontology is really hard,” Buster tweeted Thursday morning, giving kudos to Arbour.
For the record, palaeontology is really hard.
— Buster the Dinosaur (@Ferrisaurus) November 7, 2019
Kudos @VictoriaArbour! pic.x.com/YG13FTyxGE
-With files from Nina Grossman
shalu.mehta@goldstreamgazette.com
