Posted on 06/10/2024 12:56:06 PM PDT by Red Badger
June 10 (UPI) -- Three young boys out for a hike in North Dakota noticed something sticking out from the ground and were shocked to find out they had discovered a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil.
Jessin and Liam Fisher, ages 10 and 7, were out hiking onNorth Dakota Bureau of Land Management land in the badlands, near Marmarth, with their cousin, Kaiden Madsen, 9, and their dad, Sam Fisher, when the family spotted an unusual object sticking out of the ground.
They contacted Tyler Lyson, Sam Fisher's high school classmate and now the Curator of Paleontology for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, to help identify what they had found during their 2022 hike.
Lyson and his paleontology team accompanied the family on a return trip to the scene of the discovery in the summer of 2023 and determined the boys had found a juvenile Tyrannosaurus fossil.
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The fossil will make its public debut at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science's "Discovering Teen Rex" exhibit, which opens June 21.
"By going outside and embracing their passions and the thrill of discovery, these boys have made an incredible dinosaur discovery that advances science and deepens our understanding of the natural world," Lyson said in a news release. "I'm excited for museum guests to dig into the 'Teen Rex Discovery' experience, which I think will inspire the imagination and wonder, not only [of] our community, but around the world!"
The opening of the exhibit will also feature the premier of the documentary T. REX, which chronicles the fossil's discovery and features "an unprecedented journey into the world of T. rex and its fellow Cretaceous carnivores."
Those were bad guys! Great find!
Oh, when will we produce more?
That was a family outing that turned into a fascinating discovery, one the boys won’t forget and will remember with great pleasure.
So different than the two week old story of the single Mom who took her five kids to the beach, where they found and collected over 50 ‘Sea Shells’.
Turns out some of those ‘Sea Shells’ were still occupied with oysters. There is a law against collecting that kind of shell. The Mom got fined big time for their error.
Cool.
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Have it on my calendar to visit
When I was that age, EVERY fossil was a T-Rex fossil.
The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period (521 million years ago) and they flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic before slipping into a long decline, when, during the Devonian, all trilobite orders except the Proetida died out. The last trilobites disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Permian about 252 million years ago.
You could hardly avoid finding those little buggers! I never saw another one after moving away from the Finger Lakes.
Imagine a 250 million year run! Sure beats us puny humans.
Upstate NY is wonderful bottom-of-the-sea fossil hunting. Amazing how a mountain top was once an ancient sea floor.
It was also amazing realizing we had a FULL MILE of ice on top of us only 12,000 years ago and we could still see the striations cut by the glaciers on the rocks around Cayuga Lake.
Was it a mile thick? That is amazing. Around central NY there are still many salt water deposits left behind by the ocean.
I think that ice sheet was over a mile thick there.
We bought a north Idaho place six years ago and there is great geological history there, too. The Laurentide Ice Sheet was also a mile thick there!
There are huge salt mines (were?) under Cayuga Lake. Also under Lake Erie (or near there).
Thanks for the ping.
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[juvenile delinquent wrecks] I need TV when I've got T-Rex?
Isn’t it? Just think — ALL of Canada was covered in ice!
And those orange coastal strips on the map are land that was exposed because the ocean levels were 400 feet lower than today. All that water was stored in the great ice sheets.
At the end of the ice age, huge ice dams formed where Montana is today holding back the enormous glacial Lake Missoula which had half the water volume of Lake Michigan. Over 1,000 years, the dam failed and re-formed many times unleashing massive floods across the inland northwest. The evidence of that is all over Montana, Idaho, and Washington.
Or fancy stories and colored pictures designed to make you doubt the Bible and common sense.
These same ‘experts’ are now bringing us climate change.
Did you know there are many more young ages (6k years) natural clocks? Did you know that all DNA deteriorates, and the rate of accumulated DNA negative mutations only allow for any/all carbon based life-forms (reproduction no longer viable) of less than 20k years.
Give me a break - millions of years?! Really? No wait billions or years - or just lying cheating ‘experts’ making many math errors and overlooking all contradictory evidence.
There’s plenty of evidence for those willing to do their own research - most start out as genius level IQ - until public schools get finished with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_damage_theory_of_aging
Are you saying I doubt the Bible or believe in man-made climate change? Neither of those apply to me, at all. I’m certainly against the indoctrination in public schools promoting false religion. Let it be clear I’m certainly against false religious cults. My faith is in Lord Jesus Christ alone; Holy Father God who created the whole universe and the science inherent within it.
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