EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- A University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) researcher discovered a dinosaur fossil that may expand the known range of a species that roamed the Earth over 110 million years ago.

Jason W. Ricketts, Ph.D., associate professor in UTEP’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, discovered the fossils -– identified as belonging to the dinosaur Tenontosaurus -– while conducting unrelated fieldwork at Indio Mountains Research Station (IMRS), a natural laboratory that spans more than 41,000 acres in southeastern Hudspeth County, about 26 miles southwest of Van Horn, according to the university.

“I wasn’t out looking for fossils that day,” Ricketts said. “I was studying the rocks in the area when I noticed fragments weathering out of soft shale. There was no

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