LE MANS, France -- A man gardening at his home in northwestern France made an astonishing discovery -- he found a 100 million-year-old dinosaur bone.
Bruno Lebie was doing some digging when he came across the four-inch (10cm) bone on his property in regional Louplande, news website The Local reported Friday.
"I said to myself, 'could that be a dinosaur bone?' It's not really my niche," Lebie told the Ouest-France daily, a provincial newspaper.
Lebie's neighbor showed the bone to an archaeological friend who confirmed that it was a rare discovery.
The bone was later identified to have come from the foot of an ornithopod dinosaur -- a two-legged herbivore -- by Nicolas Morel, chief of the Green Museum, a natural history museum in Le Mans, 11 miles (18km) away.
Over the past two centuries, four other similar bones have been found in the area.
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