For one, no one had expected to find any dinosaur remains in the state, especially not a pygmy tyrannosaur half the size of T. rex or a dinosaur carcass chewed on by a massive marine ... There were herds of hornless horned dinosaurs as well giant versions of smaller animals farther south, all trying to make a living here. read more
Now, I don't know that this formation was ON the North Pole, but it was pretty close. Further, there were earlier dinosaurs found in Antarctica and Australia, which had not yet split and were both close to the SOUTH Pole. Dinosaurs like Leaellynasaura, Fulgurotherium, Muttaburrasaurus, and a dwarf allosaur. read more
At the time, dinosaurs were thought to have been cold-blooded and to suggest that they were warm-blooded was rather a heresy. The Colville is located in the De Long Mountains area, in the North Slope, and is a drilling site for petroleum and natural gas. read more