Back in 2022, a 25-year-old scientist and amateur paleontologist, Damien Boschetto discovered a 70-million-year-old, roughly 70% complete titanosaur skeleton in southern France, while on a simple walk with his dog. The research team decided to keep the discovery quiet for two years to prevent destruction of the fossils of the site. “We did not publicize this discovery during the extraction of the most important parts of the first skeletons in order to avoid any damage,” Boschetto stated.

There have been multiple different discoveries within the same area, making this one of the most important findings in Cruzy, France.  “It has provided and constituted for 28 years one of the most important collections of Upper Cretaceous dinosaurs in France, in collaboration with numerous scientists from the CNRS and universities (Paris, Poitier, Montpellier, Lyon),” Boschetto stated.

These discoveries were amazing finds, with this skeleton being one of the most intact ever uncovered, so, next time you take your dog for a walk, you may stumble across a huge discovery too.