A teenager from 17 years found in the United States dinosaur remains of at least 150 million of years during your first day on a paleontological expedition, according to local media.
At the end of July, according to the local news portal CT Insidera young American named Aidan participated in a excavation carried out in a natural area located southeast of the city of Red Lodge, Montana.
On this fossil discovery excursion, which was part of a high school school project Cheshire Academy together with the non-profit organization specialized in paleontology Elevation Science InstituteAidan found a dinosaur finger bone.
The fossil remains in question, according to specialists, could have belonged to a small dinosaur or a juvenile specimen from the Jurassic period.
«I was very excited,» the teenager said of his find. Photo: Aidan/Cheshire Academy/Via CT Insider.For his part, Aidan told CT Insider that, when he made the discovery, ««I was very excited.» Furthermore, the young man, who received prior instruction, clarified that the bone excavation process lasted about an hour, a relatively short time given the size of the paleontological piece.
«Generally the bones look darker than the rock around them«, the American, interested in paleontology, told the same medium.
«Very rewarding»
After discovering the bone, the teenager spent the rest of his days «covering«other large fossils of dinosaur spine.
This «coating» process, called jacketing in English, consists of preparing and protecting the specimen with different materials -as and so—for later transport it safely to a laboratory.
The young man showed another of the fossils from the expedition, a gastrolith. Photo: Aidan/Cheshire Academy/Via Fox News.«Much of the field work, especially in paleontology, It means trying your best not to break very important things.«, clarified the young man, cited by local news network Fox News.
On the other hand, Aidan assured, according to the same medium, that the experience on the expedition was «very rewarding«.
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