first dinosaur in washington state

Paleontologists Unearth Washington’s First Dinosaur: An 80 Million-Year-Old Tyrannosaur

Medicine & Technology May 22, 2015

In 2012, a team of paleontologists were scouring the rocky shores of what is today the small island of Sucia, located within Puget Sound, between Washington State and Vancouver Island. On the hunt for prehistoric shells, they inadvertently stumbled upon the bone of a creature never known to have ranged that far north - a dinosaur.

first dinosaur in washington state

Paleontologists Unearth Washington’s First Dinosaur: An 80 Million-Year-Old Tyrannosaur

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