James Sanderson was enjoying a hike through beautiful badlands near Kemmerer when something caught his eye. It was a bone-white streak jutting out of an embankment of loose, brown earth.

“I was more interested in the riverbank rocks,” he told Cowboy State Daily. “There are a couple of ancient creek beds layered over the top of the softer, pinkish sandstone when I saw the bones.”

Sanderson spotted several long, narrow, white bones. They were articulated, connected as they would have been in the animal’s skeleton.

Not knowing what it could be, Sanderson took photos of his odd discovery.

Then, he left it alone.

“Once I saw it, I took photographs and that’s all I did,” he said, explaining he didn't want to touch them. “I wanted (to report it to) the Wyoming State Geological Survey so they

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