There’s been a faithful attendant at the Cathedral of St. Ambrose in Vigevano, Italy.  Since the church opened in 1660, someone’s been to every service.  It’s not a priest, or a saint.  It’s not even human.  It’s a dinosaur skull.  A paleontologist discovered that within the pink marble rock used to build the altar at St. Ambrose is a 12-inch-long dinosaur skull, cut into segments and buried within the church’s decoration.

“The rock contains what appears to be a horizontal section of a dinosaur’s skull. The image looks like a CT scan, and clearly shows the cranium, the nasal cavities, and numerous teeth,” said paleontologist Andrea Tintori of the University of Milan, who discovered the skull in the pink stone altar.  “It (the stone) is called Broccatello and was mined in Arzo, Switzerland. We know that this type of rock dates geologically to the Lower Jurassic, about 190 million years ago.”

As for the type of dinosaur, that’s unknown.  The broccatello was mined in a fossil-rich area called Mount San Giorgio, a UNESCO World Heritage site due to its many fossil discoveries.  Dr. Tintori hopes to use 3D imaging to uncover the type of dinosaur that’s been faithfully attending church for 350 years.

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