The discovery of a dinosaur skeleton about 80 miles northeast of Dallas is shedding light on what the area was like 80 million years ago.
Dr. Ron Tykoski with the Perot Museum of Nature and Science helped direct the dig near the North Sulfur River in Fannin County a couple of weeks ago with an amateur fossil finder.
Tykoski said these types of fossils are somewhat common in the area and there is already a mosasaur on display at the museum. "At the time this animal was alive, where you and I are sitting right now would have been under hundreds of feet of water. It would have been beautiful, warm, almost tropical oceans and seas filled with fish and reptiles and clams and oysters and sea life and things like that," Tykoski said. "It was a wonderful place to live if you were a big, hungry, predatory reptile."
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