A French man was on an everyday stroll with his dog Muffin when they stumbled upon a 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossil that took two years to dig up.
“It happened one morning like any other, during an ordinary walk,” he told the outlet. “The territory around Cruzy is rich in fossils of dinosaurs and other species living at the same time.”
“It happened one morning like any other, during an ordinary walk,” Damien Boschetto told the outlet. Damien Boschetto
“They were fallen bones, therefore isolated. We realized after a few days of excavations that they were connected bones,” he said.
While the two-year project was taking place, Boschetto and members of the Archaeological and Paleontological Cultural Association kept their discovery a secret to protect the site from gawkers and those who wanted to pillage the site.
While the two-year project was taking place, Boschetto and members of the Archaeological and Paleontological Cultural Association kept their discovery a secret to protect the site from gawkers and those who wanted to pillage the site. ZUMAPRESS.com
The skeleton will now be visible at the Cruzy Museum and Boschetto hopes the public comes to “admire a dinosaur.” ZUMAPRESS.com
They extracted the bones throughout several 10-day periods, according to CBS News.
“It is very rare to find this, he had to have the eye,” Fage said. “There are some who have passed for 30 years and they have not seen this site.”
Francis Fage, founder of the Cruzy Museum, told a local outlet that Boschetto (left) was lucky to have spotted the bones to begin with and that he had an “eye” for dinosaur research. “It is very rare to find this, he had to have the eye,” Fage said. ZUMAPRESS.com
Titanosaurs roamed the Earth 145 million to 163 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. It is the largest terrestrial animals known and some grew as large as modern whales. @damienboschetto / Instagram