College Student Discovers 65-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Skull
In June, the University of California, Merced student participated in a paleontology dig with Michael Kjelland, a biology professor at Mayville State University of North Dakota.
The two
met at a conference and began a mentor-mentee relationship – now, Duran is an intern at Kjelland’s nonprofit group, Fossil Excavators.
Duran’s account isn’t too far off from the action-movie plot the name Fossil Excavators evokes.
The pair
went off into the Badlands of North Dakota on a two-week paleontology expedition. Arriving at Hell Creek Formation, an area famed for cretaceous dinosaur fossils, they came across the skull.
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