Boy finds 1.2 Million-year-old Fossil While Playing Outside (New Mexico)

[Oxytropidoceras]

Boy finds 1.2 million-year-old fossil while playing outside

By ABC Radio, July 19, 2017

http://wtop.com/science/2017/07/boy-finds-1-2-million-year-old-fossil-while-playing-outside/

 

A 9-Year-Old Tripped, Fell and Discovered a Million-Year-

Old Fossil By Jacey Fortin, New York Times,  July 19, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/science/boy-fossil-new-mexico.html

 

NMSU experts dig up Las Cruces boy’s million-year-old

fossil find. Minerva Baumann, New Mexico State University,

July 18, 2017

http://newscenter.nmsu.edu/Articles/view/12599/nmsu-experts-dig-up-las-cruces-boy-s-million-year-old-fossil-find

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Auspex]

This is a real good story; just imagine how the boy must feel!
Here's another article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nine-year-old-accidentally-discovers-stegomastodon-fossil-new-mexico-180964103/

[Yvie]

It got into our national papers too in U.K.Great find.

[Raggedy Man]

Anyone feel like playing outside? Lol

[UnbrandedMoss]

Lol, I thought about posting this last night.

[izak_]

If only I was that lucky

[Fossil-Hound]

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/07/21/sparks-ten-year-old-discovers-fossil.cnn

 

Stegomastadon! Very impressive find!