Harrison Duran, a fifth-year biology student at the University of California, Merced, uncovered the 65 million-year-old skull in the badlands of North Dakota.
"I can't quite express my excitement in that moment when we uncovered the skull," Duran said in a news release from the school on Wednesday."I've been obsessed with dinosaurs since I was a kid, so it was a pretty big deal."Harrison Duran at age 4.North Dakota is part of the Hell Creek Formation, and this area is a treasure trove for finding fossils. The rock bed formation spans four states -- Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.
"It gives us a more complete picture of the environment at the time."They named the dinosaur Alice, after the landowner.Then the painstaking work of getting Alice out of the ground began."It took a full week to excavate Alice, whose fragile skull was meticulously stabilized with a specialized glue to solidify the fractured, mineralized bones, before an accelerant was applied to bond the structures," UC Merced said in a news release.
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