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A 12-year-old boy made the discovery of his lifetime when he found a dinosaur skeleton dating back 69 million years.
The amateur palaeontologist was out hiking with his father in a fossil-rich part of Alberta, Canada this July, when he saw bones protruding from a rock.
On Thursday, the skeleton's excavation was completed.
The boy, Nathan Hrushkin, says when he first laid eyes on the bones, he was "literally speechless".
"I wasn't even excited, even though I know I should have [been]," he tells the BBC.
"I was in so much shock that I had actually found a dinosaur discovery."
Nathan, who has been interested in dinosaurs since he was six, often goes hiking in the Nature Conservancy of Canada's protected site in the Albertan Badlands with his father.
"I've always just been so fascinated with how their bones grow from bones like ours to solid rock."
A year ago, they had found small fragments of fossils, and his father guessed that they were falling down from the rock above.
So this summer Nathan decided to inspect. The fossilised bones were growing out of the side of a hill.
A 12-year-old boy made the discovery of his lifetime when he found a dinosaur skeleton dating back 69 million years.
The amateur palaeontologist was out hiking with his father in a fossil-rich part of Alberta, Canada this July, when he saw bones protruding from a rock.
On Thursday, the skeleton's excavation was completed.
The boy, Nathan Hrushkin, says when he first laid eyes on the bones, he was "literally speechless".
"I wasn't even excited, even though I know I should have [been]," he tells the BBC.
"I was in so much shock that I had actually found a dinosaur discovery."
Nathan, who has been interested in dinosaurs since he was six, often goes hiking in the Nature Conservancy of Canada's protected site in the Albertan Badlands with his father.
"I've always just been so fascinated with how their bones grow from bones like ours to solid rock."
A year ago, they had found small fragments of fossils, and his father guessed that they were falling down from the rock above.
So this summer Nathan decided to inspect. The fossilised bones were growing out of the side of a hill.
Boy, 12, discovers rare dinosaur skeleton
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When you slow down and "stop to smell the roses" you wil always amaze yourself with what you see --- nature never fails
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I watched a great show on Discovery very channel called “ Dinosaur Hunters”. It tells how ranchers in the Montana and Wyoming prairie search for dinosaur fossils to supplement income to keep ranching. One of the ranch owner’s son was amazing to watch. This kid had an incredible knowledge of dinosaurs and how to excavate them.
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