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http://www.torontosun.com/news/canad.../15117496.html

When Aaron Krywiak took a job with the city's drainage department, he never imagined he'd be digging up 70 million-year-old dinosaur remains.

But that's what he and work partner Ryley Paul unearthed earlier this month, when they were jack-hammering out a sewer tunnel nine storeys below the ground in west Edmonton.

a paleontologist from the University of Alberta was called to the excavation site, on Quesnell Crescent, east of 149 Street at 76 Avenue, in the Quesnell Heights neighbourhood.

He concluded a well-preserved tooth belonged to the Albertosaurus, a relative of the fierce Tyrannosaurus rex. Other remains likely belonged to the hadrosaur Edmontosaurus, said officials.

Paul said he's talked to co-workers who have been digging deep under Edmonton for decades, and have never come across such a find.

"The whole experience has been pretty exciting, mostly because you don't get to hold that many years of history in your hand," said Paul, 24. "After that we've been keeping a close eye on everything we find now."

Edmonton jokes aside, a very cool and exciting discovery.