Did you know that finding dinosaur remains is like finding… mushrooms?
“Either we see them on the surface, or you have to dig a little to find them, confirms Vincent Reneleau, paleontologist.
It's pretty easy, with a trained eye, to spot bones.
It can be a femur, a piece of vertebra, anything… The goal of the game is precisely to determine if it is an isolated bone or if we really have a complete skeleton”.
A skeleton 15 meters long
The young man has been a volunteer at the CR2P, the Paleontology Research Center in Paris, since 2017.
For a month, he lived an extraordinary experience since he participated in the discovery of many fossilized bones near Agadez, in Niger.
“I have just dug up a 15-metre-long dinosaur there, which must have weighed between 25 and 30 tonnes when it was alive!
That's about the weight of six or seven African elephants,” he enthuses.
“We are all motivated by the scientific and media issues that such a discovery represents, explains Vincent Reneleau.
It's normal, because these absolutely extraordinary animal bones will go around the world.
Not to mention that fossils of this quality are not found every day!
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