A 23-year-old UC Merced student made the find of a lifetime when he helped uncover a 65-million-year-old dinosaur fossil.
Harrison Duran was working on a dig site last month in the Badlands of North Dakota when he and Michael Kjelland, an excavator and professor at Mayville State University, spotted what at first glance seemed like a piece of petrified wood.
The Badlands are a paleontologist’s paradise, where many dinosaur and plant fossils have been discovered. Kjelland found another skull last year in the Hell Creek Formation, where this year’s dig was organized, and knew the area was likely to provide more fossils, perhaps from the Cretaceous Period.The excavators named their fossil find “Alice,” after the private landowner where the skull was found.
“There’s a window of opportunity when it’s not too cold and there’s no snow on the ground, and it not too hot,” he said.Duran’s interest in paleontology began in childhood with trips to the La Brea Tar Pits from his hometown of Fullerton.“Instead of going to Knott’s Berry Farm or Disneyland, I’d always beg my parents to take me to the Tar Pits.”was discovered under a construction site not far from the Tar Pits.
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