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A Kansas<\/a> boy searching for fossils during a geology club field trip stumbled onto something far bigger than expected: the remains of a 15-foot-long marine reptile that swam an ancient sea 85 million years ago.<\/p>\n

Corbin Bullard was just 11 years old when he spotted several large vertebrae protruding from rock at a quarry near his hometown of Clearwater, Kansas, during a September 2025 outing with the Sedgwick County 4-H Geology<\/a> Club.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t know what it was, but I knew that it was something big,” Bullard told FOX Local<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over the course of three additional excavation trips, Bullard and fellow club members carefully uncovered nearly an entire tylosaurus, a massive marine reptile that ruled the seas during the Cretaceous Period.<\/p>\n

DINOSAUR FOSSILS UNEARTHED DURING PARKING LOT CONSTRUCTION AT NATIONAL PARK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The fossil measured more than 15 feet long and included everything from the animal’s enormous skull to most of its skeleton.<\/p>\n

LIMPING DINOSAUR’S TWISTED PATH PUZZLES PALEONTOLOGISTS, 150 MILLION YEARS LATER: ‘VERY RARE’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The ancient predator lived roughly 82 million to 87 million years ago, according to researchers who dated the specimen to the Smoky Hill Chalk formation, a fossil-rich layer of rock<\/a> that stretches across parts of Kansas.<\/p>\n

The discovery emerged from a quarry where commercial crews routinely shave away layers of rock, exposing relics hidden for millions of years. Before Bullard’s find, club members had mostly uncovered shark teeth and fish fossils.<\/p>\n

Now 12 and preparing to enter seventh grade, Bullard plans to display the fossil’s skull at the Sedgwick County Fair in July.<\/p>\n

“I hope [the judges] say that it looks really nice and that we put a lot of effort into it,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/kansas-boy-discovers-15-foot-marine-reptile-fossil-85-million-years-ago-geology-field-trip <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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