12-Year-Old Stumbles on 69-Million-Year-Old Duck-Billed Dinosaur Fossil in Canada Badlands

12-Year-Old Stumbles on 69-Million-Year-Old Duck-Billed Dinosaur Fossil in Canada Badlands
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Any adventurous little boy would be thrilled to find a real life dinosaur fossil. But when it’s your dream to become a paleontologist, finding one becomes that much more exciting.

That’s what happened to Nathan Hrushkin, a 12-year-old boy from Calgary, Canada. He and his father were hiking at a conservation site at Horseshoe Canyon in the Badlands of Alberta, when he spotted a partially-buried dinosaur fossil.

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