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'Pretty Cool': US Kids Discover Remains Of Teen T-Rex

Young Liam Fisher lay down next to the fossilized leg bone of a dinosaur he discovered in the Badlands of North Dakota in 2022, and his family sent the photograph to a paleontologist friend, who confirmed it to be of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex (Credit: AFP)

What did you do for summer vacation? Three pre-teen dinosaur aficionados have the answer of a lifetime: they discovered the remains of a rare juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex in the North Dakota dirt.

Scientists and filmmakers announced Tuesday that brothers Liam and Jessin Fisher, age seven and 10 at the time of the find, and their nine-year-old cousin Kaiden Madsen, were walking in the Hell Creek formation of the Badlands in July 2022 when they found a large fossilized leg bone.

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