A dinosaur fossil so well preserved that it looks exactly like a statue has been put on public display at a Canadian museum, according to National Geographic.

A 110 million-year-old dinosaur fossil, also known as a “four-legged tank,” was found by a miner. The fossil belongs to an armored dinosaur. Archaeologists consider it the best-preserved dinosaur fossil ever found, according to a report by National Geographic.

The dinosaur fossil is so well preserved that it looks like a real dinosaur statue.

It was discovered by Shawn Funk while working at the Millenium Mine near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, Canada on March 21, 2011. When he dug up something hard, Shawn picked it up and found it to be a fossil. It was later transferred to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology.

Researchers spent six years reᴀssessing the fossil. Professor Jakob Vinther from the University of Bristol said: “It looks like it was just wandering around the planet a few weeks ago. I’ve never seen a fossil this intact and so well preserved.”

Fossils found belong to the ceratopsian dinosaur species.

The dinosaur was determined to be about 5m long and weighed more than 1 ton. This ceratopsian dinosaur once lived in herds in western Canada before rivers flooded and washed them out to sea. 

“We don’t just have a skeleton. We have a dinosaur that looks really intact,” said Caleb Brown, a paleontologist at the museum.

The team also said that the results obtained from the fossil could be much more. After being displayed to the public, researchers will continue to study to discover new things. 

This is considered the most intact dinosaur fossil in the world. It will be presented to the public in Canada in the near future.