Nate Murphy is a high-profile fossil hunter and former curator of palaeontology at the Phillips County Museum in Malta, US. In 2001, he uncovered a mummified dinosaur while excavating in northeastern Montana. Mr Murphy, along with a team of scientists, slowly worked away at the rock to remove the prehistoric creature.
The 59-year-old revealed during Amazon Prime’s “Secrets of the Dinosaur Mummy” how the group freed the fossil.
He said in 2017: “When we realised we had a fossilised cadaver, we had to figure out a way to get a six-and-a-half-ton block of a dinosaur out of the ballads of northeastern Montana.
“Leonardo is our best opportunity to bring dinosaurs back to life.”
The documentary went on to reveal how the Brachylophosaurus’ body had managed to stay perfectly intact for so long.
Nate Murphy uncovered the dinosaur (Image: AMAZON PRIME)
