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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Science
Edward Helmore and agencies

Three boys left ‘completely speechless’ after finding T rex bone in North Dakota

Man and three boys standing near a boulder
Paleontologist Tyler Lyson and the three young fossil finders Liam Fisher, Jessin Fisher and Kaiden Madsen who came across the remains of a juvenile T rex while out looking for fossils with Sam Fisher, the father of two of the children, in the Hell Creek badlands of North Dakota. Photograph: Kirk Johnson/Reuters

Two young brothers and their cousin say they were “completely speechless” when they came across a Tyrannosaurus rex bone poking out of the ground while out for a jaunt in the North Dakota badlands.

In July 2022, Liam and Jessin Fisher, then seven and 10, and cousin Kaiden Madsen, then nine, were hiking across a stretch of property owned by the US bureau of land management around Marmarth, a small town with a population of 101 – but also known as the dinosaur capital of North Dakota for its rich deposits of Triceratops and T rex fossils.

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