Triceratops skull found by Missouri College Students

A group of Missouri researchers has discovered a massive part of a dinosaur that became extinct about 66 million years ago.

Undergraduate researchers from Westminster College in central Missouri’s Fulton have excavated and brought home a 7-foot-long Triceratops skull from the Badlands of South Dakota.

A rancher was repairing a fence when he noticed an old piece of bone poking out of the ground. The group was on an annual fossil expedition with a Westminster geology professor when they made the rare discovery.

The skull weighs in at about 3,000 pounds and is resting in a secure location until funds can be raised to restore it.

The first order of business will be to enlarge the entrance to the Environmental Science laboratory on campus for Shady’s makeover.