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He’s been digging for dinosaurs for 25 years, in locations all over the globe, in different climates and environments — but never come across a site like Chronister.

By Sherry Liang, CNN The first tracings of dinosaurs in Missouri were found in the 1940s on the Chronister family's property when they were digging a

The first tracings of dinosaurs in Missouri were found in the 1940s on the Chronister familys property when they were digging a well. In October, nearly 60 years later, another

Bollinger County is the only place fossils have been found in Missouri.

A local museum told Newsweek the juvenile skeleton of the Parrosaurus missouriensis will be on display for visitors to see starting next month.

How Many Tyrannosaurus Rexes Ever Lived on Earth? Here’s a New Clue. An estimation of the iconic predator’s total population can teach us things about dinosaurs that fossils cannot. Computer simulations indicated, with 97.5 percent probability, that there were at least 1,300 adult tyrannosauruses at any given time but not more than 328,000.Credit...Science Photo Library/Science Source April 15, 2021Updated 2:30 p.m. ET Before they were killed off by a meteor that hit Earth 66 million ...