North Dakota, June 12, 2024
Three boys exploring in the Hell Creek badlands in North Dakota chanced upon the skeletal remains of a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. Three boys, Liam Fisher, aged 10, Jessin Fisher, 8, and Kaiden Madsen, 9, were out on a family walk in the summer of 2022 when they stumbled upon the appealing fossilized leg bone.
At first, it was assumed to be a duckbill dinosaur, but a later study exposed a T. rex tooth, and its lower jaw had rather large, sharp teeth.To make the discovery, the boys’ father, Sam Fisher, called his high school buddy Tyler Lyson, an associate curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Lyson realised the importance of his discovery and, therefore, arranged for an excavation. The team, including the children and their sister Emalynn Fisher, digging for fossils of the prehistoric creatures, found a juvenile T. rex. The death of the fossil also occurred approximately 67 million years ago, and it was estimated to be 13 to 15 years of age.
This finding is important as it is very rare to find T. rex samples that belong to juveniles. The fossil is about 7 centimeters long in size and looks like a curved rod with a hollow interior. Measuring 6m (25ft) in length and 3m (10ft) in height, They were constructed using reinforced concrete and steel and had a gross weight of about 1,632 kg (3,500 lbs).
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Given that the shin bone measures eighty-two centimeters, it can be asserted that the animal in question was in its teenage years. This discovery will come in handy in understanding how the T. rex species evolved to what it was.
The discovery was embargoed until the filming of a program depicting the life cycle of the T.rex. The movie directed by John Stimpson named “T. Rex” will be available to the visitors of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on June 21st.
It will also be exhibited in the museum’s temporary exhibition called “Discovering Teen Rex,” where the spectators will have the opportunity to recall the amazing events.
