in autumn 2009, Mátyás made the most important discovery of his life. He was out prospecting with his boys when he saw some chalk-white lumps poking out from the rusty red rocks on the bank a few feet above the waterline. Bones. He took out his tools and scratched into the soft mudrock, and more kept coming: the limbs and torso of a poodle-size critter. Excitement quickly turned to fear: the local power station would soon be discharging a surge of water into the river, and the rising currents would probably wash away the bones. So Mátyás worked quickly, but with the precision of a surgeon, and
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