An 8 th grader found an ancient Tyrannosaurus rex fossil while hiking in Boulder County, Colorado last month on March 12 th. Jonathan Charpentier noticed something shinny on the ground so he picked it up, not knowing that it was an ancient dinosaur fossil from millions of years ago. In an interview with CBS4, Charpentier described how he found the fossil. “I never expected anything like that,” he said, adding, “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.”