Laso lifts prehistoric dinosaur skeleton in Portugal

Mitchell Keller Managing Editor, American Cranes & Transport

13 August 2026

A 148-million-year-old Ankylosaurid skeleton required careful lifting from cliffs at Foz do Sizandro before transport to a laboratory in the USA.

Portuguese crane and transport specialist Laso Transportes used a 60-ton capacity mobile crane to lift and remove a rock block containing one of the most complete dinosaur fossils ever found in Portugal, working in collaboration with the Society of Natural History and the excavation research team.

The fossil, an Ankylosaurid…

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