Alberta: A 12-year old called
Nathan Hrushkin found a rare dinosaur fossil with his father during a hike in
the Badlands, Canada. The duo just finished their lunch on one of their hikes
they took this summer and the young Nathan climbed up a hill to have a look.
Nathan soon called for his father and judging by the tone of Nathan, his father
thought his son had found something significant. They found a bone of Hadrosaur
dinosaur that lived approximately 69 million years ago in the Alberta region.
The father and son took pictures of the fossil embedded in the rock and sent it
to Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology. After verifying the pictures, the
museum had dispatched a group of paleontologists to the fossil site. The team
had found the bone and had to break down a large rock surrounded the fossil to
extract the dinosaur bone from the rock. The team had worked on the site for
more than two months and Nathan and his father had visited the site several
times during the digging.
Nathan said that he aimed to be a
paleontologist when he grew up and conceded that Hadrosaur dinosaurs were not
popular among the dinosaurs and the recent discovery only strengthened his will
to become a paleontologist.
Fossils are protected under the
Canadian law, and the Nature Conservancy of Canada advised the public to not
disturb any fossils they found and inform the concerned authorities if they
come across any fossils. The team had uncovered more than 30 Hadrosaur bones and
the bones were most likely belong to a three or four year old Hadrosaur.
