Kent Hups
Kent Hups is a high school science teacher who gained recognition for discovering a significant fossil trackway while volunteering on a dig in the Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota. His discovery of four large, three-toed footprints, later confirmed to likely belong to an adult Tyrannosaurus rex, offers invaluable insights into the locomotion of one of the most famous predators of the Cretaceous period.
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Kent Hups found the first known trackway left behind by a T. rex during a research expedition.
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Kent Hups, a Colorado high school teacher and amateur fossil hunter, discovered the first adult T. rex trackway in North Dakota.
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Kent Hups spotted unusual impressions while volunteering on a fossil dig in the Hell Creek Formation.
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