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"Man Discovers Nearly Intact 70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Skeleton While Walking His Dog"
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"Dog Walker Discovers 70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Skeleton in Secret Find"
A man in France found a nearly intact skeleton of a 70-million-year-old titanosaur while walking his dog in May 2022, but kept the discovery a secret for two years to protect the excavation site from pillagers and onlookers. Damien Boschetto, 25, and the Archaeological and Paleontological Cultural Association worked to unearth the 30-foot-long fossil, which is now on display at the Cruzy Museum. Boschetto, who left his job to pursue a master’s degree in paleontology, described finding the fossil in its original anatomical position as exciting and interesting for scientific research.
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