Move Over Caribou

By on February 8, 2013 in News, Uncategorized

Pictured above is the new quarter that the Royal Canadian Mint is unveiling on March 12.

In place of the usual caribou, it features a prehistoric creature called a Quetzalcoatlus that inhabited the Western Interior Sea that ran from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico during the Late Cretacious period around 65 million years ago.

As an added feature, the image apparently glows in the dark. Read more on the Royal Canadian Mint website here.

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4 Responses to Move Over Caribou

  1. Amber February 8, 2013 at 11:46 am #

    So, in a day of crappy news (see all ensuing posts), this is pretty cool.

  2. Ron February 9, 2013 at 1:20 am #

    The skeleton image makes way more sense than the other one.The other one,makes the creature to be 3 legged.

    Couldn’t the mint pu.(cgi), both wings above ground level?

  3. Ron February 9, 2013 at 1:21 am #

    put

  4. Barb Saylor February 9, 2013 at 11:36 am #

    @2: I noticed that too.

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