Unexpected find in Washington may be last of its kind

Dinosaur fossil discovered in the state of Washington.

When an inter-tidal rock was found in the Sucia Island State Park in Washington State back in 2012, its discoverers had no idea that it would create or cause such excitement and hype. Embedded in the rock is a 17-inch bone fragment, that could not be immediately identified and cataloged. It wasn't until almost 2 years later of at the Burke Museum's storage, that things finally started to make sense.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - According to the museum's Curator of Vertebrae Paleontology, Christian Sidor, his team did not expect to discover something as monumental as a dinosaur bone.

The Washington area used to be covered in deep water during the time when these huge reptiles stilled roamed the earth, millions of years ago. When the large bone fragment was tested, the scientists were taken aback when they found out that this was indeed part of a large therapod's thigh bone.

Sidor and his team went out exploring the rest of the dinosaur artifacts in other museums and compared the bones of similar size and age with the one they had. They were able to confirm that the bone is definitely of a therapod, which is a group of dinosaurs known for their carnivorous diet.

This is the group of dinosaurs the ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex is associated with.

Therapods lived mostly during the Cretaceous Period, about 80 million years ago. Although the bone's actual specie cannot be determined, it is still considered to be a great historical find.

This find has completely changed the history of the state because it is one of the least expected areas to turnout a dinosaur fossils.

Other states are said to have been submerged in water. According to Sidor, Washington may be the last state in the country to ever find their very first dinosaur fossil.

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