A group of researchers and students from the University of Kansas are hard at work digging up the skeleton of a juvenile tyrannosaurus rex in Montana this summer. David Burnham, Preparator of vertebrate Paleontology with KU’s Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, says the excavation began in 2016 when a student came across the exciting find. A bone was recovered and sent back to KU for study, at which point it was found that it belonged to a t-rex. The professor, with the help of five students and two staff from the university, are wrapping up work on t-rex remains about 40 miles north of the town of Jordan, and each trip they come up with a little bit more of the skeleton.
What makes this dig site so special is that it involves a young t-rex. While many adults have been found around the world and pieced back together, very few juvenile specimens have been identified. Burnham hopes to finish pulling the rest of the t-rex remains from the ground soon so it can be brought back to Lawrence.
