MEXICO: When thinking of dinosaur fossils people usually imagine the Montana Badlands, a huge stretch of rugged terrain filled with ancient fossils. There’s a good reason for that, the rough interior of North America is a prime spot for fossils where the land was filled with life in ancient times. Where you wouldn’t expect to find a dinosaur fossil is the coast of Washington state since it was covered by shallow waters when dinosaurs ruled the land. That’s what has scientists so excited about a femur bone discovered recently along the Washington coast.
In May 2012 while collecting ammonite fossils along the shore of Sucia Island in the San Juan Island chain northwest of Seattle researchers found a 16.7 inch part of a fossilized femur bone. Since then paleontologists have tried to identify the exact dinosaur species the bone belongs to without much luck. All they have been able to ascertain is that the dinosaur belong to the theropod family which includes the T-Rex and Velociraptor. Just as mysterious as what species the bone belonged to was how it ended up there in the first place. A land animal’s fossils are not usually found mixed in with those of prehistoric clams.
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