A college student who has been a fan of dinosaurs since he was a child was part of a team of excavators who recently dug up the partial skull of a 65-million-year-old triceratops.
A college student who has been a fan of dinosaurs since he was a child was part of a team of excavators who recently dug up the partial skull of a 65-million-year-old triceratops buried at a North Dakota dig site.
Duran and Kjelland, a biology professor at Mayville State University in North Dakota, founded the nonprofit organization Fossil Excavators after bonding over their love for the prehistoric creatures., the skull was found"inverted with the base of its left horn partially exposed above the ground." Duran and Kjelland named the skull Alice.
Fossil Excavators said in the coming months it will begin the process of preparing the skull for research and public display.
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