‘All That’s Interesting’: Cool Facts To Spark Your Curiosity

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“I was, like, completely speechless.”⁠
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In July 2022, seven-year-old Liam Fisher, his 10-year-old brother Jessin, and their nine-year-old cousin Kaiden Madsen were out for a hike near the tiny town of Marmarth, North Dakota. The boys then saw what looked like a small fossil sticking out of the ground. Liam initially thought it was just a “chunk-osaurus,” a made-up name these aspiring paleontologists created for any fossil fragment that’s too small to identify. And when they showed it to a family friend, a paleontologist at a museum in Denver, he thought it might belong to a common duckbill dinosaur known as a hadrosaurus. But when the boys returned to the site and resumed their dig, they quickly came across a jawbone with enormous teeth sticking out of it — and soon realized that they’d actually uncovered a T. rex.