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The owner of a junk removal company became an accidental dinosaur hunter when he discovered thousands of fossils while cleaning out a southwest Calgary home.

Originally from the southeast of England, Mike Darbyshire is part-owner of Just Junk Calgary and has spent the last eight years packing up and carting off Calgarians’ unwanted items.

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He’s found some interesting things in that time, including around $40,000 in cash stashed in cigarette tins.

But while doing an estate home cleanup in the southwest earlier this week, Darbyshire and his crew found something no one expected to see: dinosaur bones.

“There was only a couple of boxes we found, and then the more we dug the more we found and it was quite a significant find,” Darbyshire said. “They were packed away in boxes in the basement … and in a shed in the backyard.”

Darbyshire said there are “thousands” of fossils, bones and pieces of petrified wood in the collection.