Colorado Student Discovers Historic Tyrannosaurus Rex Tooth

Boulder CO

01 April, 2021

3:57 PM

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By CBS Denver Staff: BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Eighth grader Jonathan Charpentier is the newest dinosaur discoverer for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He found a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth while out on a hike in southeast Boulder County. "I never expected anything like that," Charpentier told CBS4. "It was shiny, and it caught my eye, so I picked it up, but I had no clue that it would be a dinosaur tooth. When I got home and washed it off, then I knew it was not a rock, but something else." Read more at CBS Denver