'Discovery by little Nathan:' 12 year old makes fossil find in southern Alberta

A 12 year old Calgary boy has found a young dinosaur fossil that paleontologists say can fill a significant gap in their knowledge of dinosaur evolution.

Nathan Hrushkin was hiking with his dad in the badlands of southeastern Alberta, when he discovered the fossil of a juvenile hadrosaur.

Since then, paleontologists have uncovered between 30 and 50 bones in the canyon's wall.

A Calgary based paleontologist is excited about the discovery of a young dinosaur fossil by a 12 year old boy which could help experts understand how dinosaurs lived through severe climate change millions of years ago.

Francois Therrien is a paleontologist with the Royal Tyrrell Museum and says the dinosaur that roamed Alberta 69 million years ago provides insight into an era of their existence that experts never knew much about before.