Three young Americans discovered a T-Rex skeleton in North Dakota. A young specimen, which should allow us to learn more about the growth of the “king of dinosaurs”.
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By Bernard PadoanPublished on 5/06/2024 at 3:50 p.m.
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Lhe story is beautiful… and it will also be the subject of a documentary which will soon be broadcast in Imax cinemas. Three young Americans with a passion for fossil hunting – two brothers aged 10 and 7 and their cousin aged 9 at the time – discovered the remains of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex in North Dakota. A find described as “extremely rare” made by the three boys in July 2022 in the Hell Creek formation, a region known to dinosaur hunters in the northern United States. After coming across what they thought was a duck-billed dinosaur bone – a relatively common species in this region – they contacted a family friend who happened to be a curator specializing in vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, The Dr Tyler Lyson.
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