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June 6, 2024 1 min
Two young boys and their cousin were just out looking for fossils and "stuff" when they came upon an amazing discovery! (Photo: Getty Images)
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These brothers, Liam and Justin Fisher, their ages seven to ten, along
with their nine year old cousin Kayden, were just kind of messing around.
They were looking for and digging forsome fossils in North Dakota when they spotted
something very unusual, and after sendinga photo to a family friend who happened
to be a dinosaur excer, theylearned that they had discovered the fossilized remains

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of a very rare teenaged Tyrannosaurus rex. Are you serious, I'm dead serious.
It was a big deal in thescientific world because it could help fill
in some gaps of understanding how trex grew from hatchlings to adults. And
the researchers are now calling this youngpredator teen rex. That would be like

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a dream come true for our pastinternasher. They are a dinosaur, huge
dinosaur. Think about the story thatthose kids can tell at parties when they
grow up. Yeah, when Iwas young. Oh yeah, how does
a t rex suit? Yeah?Yeah, exactly. And and if it
is a teenage teen rex, yeah, teen rex. If it was a

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teenage t rex, it had tobe full grown, would Oh yeah,
if you look at the pictures,it's huge. Man
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