Four-year-old Wylie from southeast Arlington was looking for some fish fossils in Mansfield

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BRENT: Can every kid say he made the discovery of a lifetime sooner than he even started kindergarten? Of course not, but Wylie Brys can.
Four-year-old Wylie from southeast Arlington was looking for some fish fossils in Mansfield with his dad Tim last fall, the moment he went back with a bone that made the paleontologists from Southern Methodist University thrilled.
According to Michael Polcyn an SMU paleontologist that a chunk that measured 3 inches happened to be a piece of a nodosaur, a dinosaur that aged 94 million years old that seemed like brief, squatty cow with armour.
The scientist were at first cynical concerning what they would discover on the building located near the new Sprouts Farmers Market place under one hundred yards from hectic Matlock Rd.
Dale Winkler an SMU paleontologist said that they thought the bone was probably from a plesiosaur, which “we have all over the Metroplex.”
“We were not expecting to discover a lot of it. It looked like the bones had been spread around. We started digging and 1 bone connected to a further bone that connected to another bone that connected to an additional bone,” Winkler stated.
April 3rd was when the paleontologists together with volunteers from the Dallas Paleontological Society began excavating and discovered “more than 50 percent” of the nodosaur, one and only of the five ever discovered in the Metroplex and the first in decades.