College student digs up 65 million-year-old giant dinosaur skull

Harrison Duran, 23, a fifth-year biology student, has loved dinosaurs since he was a child, the Merced Sun-Star reported, so it seemed almost magical when he uncovered the giant skull at the famous dinosaur fossil site called Hell Creek Formation.

"I can't quite express my excitement in that moment when we uncovered the skull," Duran said in a statement from the university.

“I’ve been obsessed with dinosaurs since I was a kid, so it was a pretty big deal,” he said.

He made the discovery with Michael Kjelland, a biology professor at Mayville State University in North Dakota.

They named the skull Alice, according to the university, after spending a full week digging it out of its longtime resting place.