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A trio of boys had a dino-mite day while on a family hike in North Dakota.
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The Denver Museum of Nature and Science revealed earlier this month that the group of youngsters were on an outing in 2022 when they found a rare juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex fossil.
Jessin and Liam Fisher were hiking in the badlands with their dad Sam Fisher and cousin Kaiden, a news release from the museum said, per People.
Liam was seven at the time, while Jessin was 10 and Kaiden was nine, ABC News reported.
“You just never know what you are going to find out there,” Sam told the outlet. “You see all kinds of cool rocks and plants and wildlife.”
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Upon landing on their fantastic find, the family contacted the museum’s curator of paleontology, Tyler Lyson, who knew the Fisher patriarch from high school, to help with identification.
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The following summer, Lyson and the boys went back to the site with a team of paleontologists to dig up the fossil.
“By going outside and embracing their passions and the thrill of discovery, these boys have made an incredible dinosaur discovery that advances science and deepens our understanding of the natural world,” Lyson said.
The fossil will be displayed in the Denver museum’s temporary exhibition “Discovering Teen Rex,” which opens to the public on June 21. Behind-the-scenes footage from the discovery was documented in the 40-minute movie T. REX, which will screen in the museum’s Infinity Theater.
“I’m excited for museum guests to dig into the ‘Teen Rex Discovery’ experience, which I think will inspire the imagination and wonder, not only our community, but around the world,” Lyson added.
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In an interview with the New York Post, Liam recalled that special day.
“I went up to a ledge with my dad and then he and I spotted the bones,” the boy told the outlet. “We called for Jessin and Kaiden and Jessin said, ‘That’s a dinosaur.’”
Jessin said that he had previously found “buffalo and cow bones” and said that the dinosaur remains were “definitely bigger.”
The news release called it a “significant moment for science as only a handful of juvenile T. rex skeletons have ever been found.”
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