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10-yr-old accidentally discovers 1.2 million-year-old fossil
short by Dishant Sharma / on Saturday, 22 July, 2017
Jude Sparks, a 10-year-old kid, accidentally discovered a rare 1.2 million-year-old skull of a stegomastodon, a prehistoric ancestor of elephants, while hiking in the Las Cruces desert in New Mexico, US. "This may be only the second complete skull found in New Mexico", said a University professor who is currently studying the fossil, which weighs about a tonne.
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