A 23-year-old college student fulfills his childhood dream of working with dinosaurs and helps discover a Triceratops skull during a dig in North Dakota.
A 23-year-old college student has fulfilled his childhood dream of working with dinosaurs and helped discover a Triceratops skull during a dig in North Dakota.
“I can’t quite express my excitement in that moment when we uncovered the skull,” Duran said in a statement. “I’ve been obsessed with dinosaurs since I was a kid, so it was a pretty big deal.” The first day of the dig, they didn't find much -- just some fragments of dinosaur bones, Kjelland said. Three days later, Kjelland decided to venture around the corner to a ravine that hadn't been searched before and spotted something that he first assumed was a piece of wood.
In the past, Kjelland has found turtle shells and crocodile teeth in the area, which shows that the region used to be much warmer and humid -- the type of climates you may find in Florida or on the coasts of Mississippi or Texas. Kjelland hopes that Alice will serve as an educational tool and travel from museum to museum -- and even the UC Merced campus on day -- rather than be sold as part of a private collection.
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