The specimen was broken and weatherworn, nearly hidden by the dirt, but to the three boys standing over it in the North Dakota Badlands, it was unmistakable - a dinosaur bone.
"It's one in several million," Lyson told The Washington Post of the chances. "There's only about five or six juvenile tyrannosaurs from this same interval of time, so it's quite rare."
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