3 boys helped find a young T. rex in North Dakota. Research complicates what experts know about it

Liam Fisher was 7 when he spotted a bone jutting from the North Dakota badlands and figured it was "chunk-osaurus," a made-up name for fossil bits too small to identify. It was a young Tyrannosaurus rex.

3 boys helped find a young T. rex in North Dakota. Research complicates what experts know about it

TL;DR

  • Liam Fisher, aged 7, found a bone in the North Dakota badlands.
  • He initially thought it was a small, unidentifiable fossil fragment, which he named "chunk-osaurus."
  • The bone was later identified as belonging to a young Tyrannosaurus rex.