Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.A dad, his two sons and their cousin were on a hike in the Badlands of North Dakota in 2022 when they found what looked like a dinosaur leg sticking out of a rock.Liam Fisher lies next to the dinosaur discovery. His father texted this image to Lyson, a former classmate, who set the stage for the fossil’s excavation. – Courtesy Denver Museum of Nature and ScienceSam Fisher, his sons, Jessin and Liam, then 10 and 7, and their cousin Kaiden Madsen, who was 9, had been amateur fossil hunters for years and knew that the area — the Hell Creek Formation — was rich with them, having yielded some of the most famous Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons in the world.They did not know, however, that they were making a significant scientific discovery.“My dad hollered for Jessin and Kaiden to come, and they came running up,” Liam said during a news conference Tuesday in Denver. “Dad asked, ‘What is this?’ And Jessin said, ‘That’s a dinosaur!’”They posed for a picture with the bones, and Fisher sent the image to paleontologist and Denver Museum of Nature & Science curator Dr. Tyler Lyson, who had been a high school classmate of his.Now, the museum has unveiled what it calls “Teen Rex,” a rare juvenile T. rex skeleton, one of only a handful in existence. The public will be able to see it get extracted from the rock at an exhibition opening on June 21.‘Wishful thinking’When he first got the picture of the leg bone, Lyson thought he was looking at a duck-billed dinosaur.“I didn’t know it was a T. rex, because all I had were photos, and the knee joint looked like a duckbill,” he said. “Later, I started looking at the photos a little more closely. And the way in which the bone was breaking up into sheets indicated it might be a meat-eating dinosaur.”He then texted his paleontologist friends, checking to see if anyone thought it might be a T. rex. “They were like, ‘No, it looks like a duckbill.’ And I was like, …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnSign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.A dad, his two sons and their cousin were on a hike in the Badlands of North Dakota in 2022 when they found what looked like a dinosaur leg sticking out of a rock.Liam Fisher lies next to the dinosaur discovery. His father texted this image to Lyson, a former classmate, who set the stage for the fossil’s excavation. – Courtesy Denver Museum of Nature and ScienceSam Fisher, his sons, Jessin and Liam, then 10 and 7, and their cousin Kaiden Madsen, who was 9, had been amateur fossil hunters for years and knew that the area — the Hell Creek Formation — was rich with them, having yielded some of the most famous Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons in the world.They did not know, however, that they were making a significant scientific discovery.“My dad hollered for Jessin and Kaiden to come, and they came running up,” Liam said during a news conference Tuesday in Denver. “Dad asked, ‘What is this?’ And Jessin said, ‘That’s a dinosaur!’”They posed for a picture with the bones, and Fisher sent the image to paleontologist and Denver Museum of Nature & Science curator Dr. Tyler Lyson, who had been a high school classmate of his.Now, the museum has unveiled what it calls “Teen Rex,” a rare juvenile T. rex skeleton, one of only a handful in existence. The public will be able to see it get extracted from the rock at an exhibition opening on June 21.‘Wishful thinking’When he first got the picture of the leg bone, Lyson thought he was looking at a duck-billed dinosaur.“I didn’t know it was a T. rex, because all I had were photos, and the knee joint looked like a duckbill,” he said. “Later, I started looking at the photos a little more closely. And the way in which the bone was breaking up into sheets indicated it might be a meat-eating dinosaur.”He then texted his paleontologist friends, checking to see if anyone thought it might be a T. rex. “They were like, ‘No, it looks like a duckbill.’ And I was like, …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
