This 12-Year-Old Made A Significant Dinosaur Discovery

What were you doing when you were twelve years old? Maybe not looking for fossils, right? Pretty sure I was just trying to survive school when I was that young. This 12-year-old boy, however, has already made a  significant scientific discovery. Aspiring paleontologist Nathan Hrushkin and his father, Dion, discovered the partially exposed bones at Horseshoe Canyon in Canada, as Fox News details:

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The Royal Tyrrell Museum sent a team of experts to the conservation site, who uncovered between 30 and 50 bones from the canyon’s wall.

“All of the bones collected belong to a single specimen, a juvenile hadrosaur approximately three or four years old,” the Nature Conservancy said, in the statement. “While hadrosaurs are the most common fossils found in Alberta’s Badlands, this particular specimen is noteworthy because few juvenile skeletons have been recovered and also because of its location in the strata, or the rock formation.”

“My dad and I have been visiting this property for a couple of years, hoping to find a dinosaur fossil, and we’ve seen lots of little bone fragments,” said aspiring paleontologist Nathan Hrushkin, in the statement. “This year I was exploring higher up the canyon and found about four bones. We sent pictures and to the Royal Tyrrell Museum and François, the paleontologist who replied, was able to identify one of the bones as a humerus from the photos so we knew we’d found something this time.”

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Source: neatorama

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