From the Billings Gazette: Kansas fossil hunters think Montana find could be a first |
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two Kansas fossil hunters say they think they found something new while digging in Montana. Jim Kirkland, a state paleontologist at the Utah Geological Survey, has examined photos of the fossil that Robert and Alan Detrich are uncovering and said it looks like a new type of ankylosaur. The low-slung heavily armored dinosaurs lived around 65 million years ago and munched on plants. "This thing is worthy of note. There is no doubt about it," said Kirkland, who specializes in ankylosaurs. "In my mind it's clearly a new one." |
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Associated Press | Posted: Sunday, July 24, 2011 |
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Just Released: A New Book With Bob Detrich As The Main Character! |
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Meet the Boneheads, a modern stone-age family: There's Stan and Steve Sacrisson, eccentric twins from South Dakota, with an uncanny sense for locating rexes. Though one is a gravedigger and the other sleeps in his car, the pair have discovered three of them. Then there's cowboy Bucky Derflinger who discovered two rexes and bought a cattle ranch with the million-dollar proceeds. And finally there's the tribe's monarch: Bob Detrich, a former male model and ball-bearing salesman who goes by the name Fossil King. Polsky goes into the field to follow a childhood obsession, only to learn that finding a dinosaur is a rocky journey. So come along with Richard Polsky as he gets out into the field in pursuit of a T. rex of his own. Or as the author puts it, "Let others hunt trilobites! I want the big one! |
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DFC Team has made another amazing discovery - COULD IT BE... ? |
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Why
is Bob literally grinning Because it is very likely that he has just uncovered the most unique fossil discovery ever! We told you that we thought that we had found a very rare set of fossils this summer - and we were right! |
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Detrich Fossil Company Team discovered the highly controversial
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In the Spring of 2004, The Carnegie Museum of Natural History started preparation and study of the best t-rex skull yet to be discovered! "Samson" will be expertly prepared before the eyes of museum visitors and will undergo thorough study by the museum's scientific staff. "It is probably the best skull that's ever been collected," said a private preparator who is preparing the rest of Samson's partial skeleton. "It is the best that I've ever seen. ...You can actually see blood veins in the skull." Robert Detrich says, "The 3-D imagining from the cat scan will be the first undistorted view of t-rex ever." Read more about it from the Post-Gazette in Pittsburgh, PA |
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| The Detrich Fossil Company is continually searching for the best dinosaur and other types of spectacular fossils. We will show you where we have been, exotic places as we experience them, and our spectacular finds. Join us in our commitment to discover and display the best fossils in the world and details of global expeditions via photography, video (coming soon) on the web. We will show you who we are and why we are The Fossil Kings! |
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Triceratops Skull found
Summer
2011
After
many years of working together as a team, Alan Detrich has retired and
passed the ownership, management tasks, and the "Fossil King"
crown onto his brother, Robert J. Detrich.
The DFC Team has another amazing fossil
on display!
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7' Triceratops Skull w/ jaws and beaks intact!
Lots of fossils
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New fossils added 5/04!
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