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. Harrison Duran, a biology student at the University of California at Merced, stumbled upon the 65-million-year-old dinosaur skull on June 4
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.
"It's difficult to explain, but the way I can best explain it is almost like as a spiritual experience," Duran told ABC News."It's an emotional ride to find something, do something, accomplish something that you have always dreamed about -- that you've always strived to achieve is just really something."
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. "The more we uncovered every day that we were excavating, when we'd dig, we'd find more of the horn, then more and more, and we'd have the full horn exposed," Duran said."And then we'd dig more and find the eye socket and then the nose horn and then the beak, and it's just quite an exciting experience. It's just a real treat.
Alice's skull is currently behind housed safely in Kjelland's lab. Duran plans on returning to North Dakota to assist Kjelland with further research and preparing the fossil for display.
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