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Posted on 05/27/2026 2:43:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Kansas boy found something historic during an educational field trip.
Corbin Bullard, 12, is already a geology fan, especially dinosaurs. He is also a part of the 4-H Geology Club in Sedgwick County.
“4-H is definitely meant to help kids find what they’re interested in and do amazing things,” Stephanie Hays, the Sedgwick County 4-H agent, said.
And it was on one of the 4-H trips in Jewell County where Corbin stumbled across something unexpected.
“He said, ‘Whoa.’ So, we looked down and found what I think was seven or eight large vertebrae,” Wendy Bullard, Corbin’s mother, recalled.
The vertebrae ended up being a part of a tylosaurus fossil from the Cretaceous period.
“Who would’ve thought?” Bullard said.
Corbin found the fossil back in September, and it took three trips to excavate the entire item. The tylosaurus is not a dinosaur but a mosasaur, and it swam in Kansas 80 million years ago.
“Pretty much all of the middle of America used to be underwater,” Corbin said.
The 12-year-old is currently cleaning the eight-piece fossil, which measures over 15 feet tall. It has taken some time. At least 30 hours, he said.
“I feel like it’s very surreal to have had this happen. I’m very proud of Corbin for sticking through it and finding everything,” Hays said.
If you want to see the skull of the tylosaurus, Corbin will have it on display at the Sedgwick County Fair in July.
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Seems there were.
What was here 80 million years ago? 8oo million years ago, etc.?
Your one of “those”.
We’ve been invaded by the young earth creationist crowd.
Pictures of a mosasaur often highlight its vicious teeth, which it used to eat all kinds of smaller animals. © Dotted Yeti/ Shutterstock
Dream on.
Only 80 million? I think its closer to 81! Maybe 82.
Who is to say that God hasn’t practiced things on the planet a few times? Sort of like an Etch A Sketch? Wiped the planet clean and started over.
Louisiana has Alligoator Gar & Spotted Gar, and they can grow quie large. I think around 10 feet for the Alligator Gar, while the Spotted Gar is like 3 feet. But I don't travel in the Buous, so I am not that gamiliar with them. But I remember seeing them in a tank as Bass Pro Outdoor World, a long time ago, when I stopped in to check it out, just for kicks.
Yes. Sadly.
When I was a kid in Ithaca, NY, I’d regularly find trilobite fossils. I just looked them up and found they were 385–480 million years old. But nobody ran an article about me. Sob!! No wonder I’m not well-adjusted.
Yes, but that was a lot closer to 385 million years ago;)
An IQ of 106 and they called him a moron? Gotta be kidding me. He scored 6 points above the best possible score.
The scientifically literate understand why that is not so. There is overwhelming linked evidence across many branches of science that indicate the universe is far older than “thousands of years“.
If that is not the case, then essentially God is lying to us. Is that your belief?
There was no... 80 million years ago.
Who is to say that God hasn’t practiced things on the planet a few times? Sort of like an Etch A Sketch? Wiped the planet clean and started over.
....
Along your premise.
Let there be Light is noted as the start of the first ‘day’.
Problem with that is ‘In the Beginning, God created the heaven and the earth’ isn’t part of that ‘1st day’.
So, how long before that first ‘day’ was the earth created?
If people want to know how God tells time, He gave a plain instruction to Ezekiel.
And ‘In the Beginning God created the heaven and the earth’ is commemorated on a different day than ‘Let there be Light’.
The earth was already around before ‘Let there be light ‘ according to scripture.
So with your premise, maybe there was just one ‘etch a sketch’ of earth.
And it caused it to become waste and void.
the universe ‘s age is not the same as some fossil on earth’s age.
That’s a gorgeous fossil! Lucky kid!
moral of the story, don’t date ancient animals
A Conservative would say: Oh cool, a tylosaurus fossil. Great job, Corbin!!
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