It was the discovery he'd always dreamed of making. In June, 23-year-old University of California Merced student Harrison Duran was working at a dig site in the North Dakota Badlands, when out of the corner of his eye, he thought he saw a piece of petrified wood. He was there with Michael Kjelland, an excavator and professor at Mayville State University, and together they started digging. What Duran initially thought was a piece of wood turned out to be a 65-million-year-old dinosaur fossil. Dur...
College student uncovers 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull in North Dakota
The Week - 26 Jul 2019 04:11
It was the discovery he'd always dreamed of making. In June, 23-year-old University of California Merced student Harrison Duran was working at a dig site in the North Dakota Badlands, when out of the corner of his eye, he thought he saw a piece of petrified wood. He was there with Michael Kjelland, an excavator and professor at Mayville State University, and together they started digging. What Duran initially thought was a piece of wood turned out to be a 65-million-year-old dinosaur fossil. Dur...
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