Looks very mosasaury to me. Can't say I've seen one swimming around recently.
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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No. He didn’t.
Stolen Sea!
LOL, he did not. That kid is going to be very disappointed when he finds out what he “found.”
Most rocks are old.
Glowbull warming!
Geology is, essentially, the study of rocks.
Paleontology would include the study of dinosaurs.
Me thinks the authors have rocks for brains.
Care to eloborate on that?
Most "journalists" know so little they don't know what they don't know.
“Most “journalists” know so little they don’t know what they don’t know.”
Marginally related, but I watched “Nuremburg” recently about the trial of the 22 main Nazis that survived and largely based on interviews by a US Army psychiatrist who examined them.
Fell down the rabbit hole of looking at these guys. The notes from the exams are all public, including IQ tests.
They were all genius-level smart (or close), except Julius Stretcher, the publisher of Der Sturmer. He was 106.
They all considered him a moron.
Even an innocent post like this brings out the assholes.
There were no animals on this planet 80 million years ago.
What are you saying? Or not saying? Or impyling. Seems like to me a 12 year old kid found a fossil and was excited.
Dinosaurs inhabited the earth during the Mesozoic Era, which lasted between around 200 million to around 60 million years ago. The fossil in question is from the Cretaceous period, which began around 145 million years ago and produced the T-Rex and other famous dinosaurs.
“Geology is, essentially, the study of rocks.
Paleontology would include the study of dinosaurs.
Me thinks the authors have rocks for brains.”
You don’t major in paleontologist. You can take paleontologist courses as a geology major.
Geology isn’t related to dinosaurs.
Yes. He didn’t find any “million year old” fossil. He found a thousands of year old fossil.
I might be old enough to have seen one in my pond the other day. This kid has a find of a lifetime, but I do have some fossilized poo about that old (copralite).
He didn’t find any “million year old” fossil. He found a thousands of year old fossil.
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