Student Discovers 65 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Skull, Has Grand Plans to Give It Second Life

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7/25/2019Updated: 7/25/2019

A University of California student has discovered a 65 million-year-old dinosaur skull in a remote area of North Dakota.

Harrison Duran, a fifth-year biology student at the University of California, Merced, unearthed the partial Triceratops skull on a recent paleontology dig, according to a July 24 press release.

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