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

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 07:52 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Jude Sparks was playing with his brothers in New Mexico when he stumbled over the fossilized tusk of a Stegomastodon, a prehistoric, elephantine creature.

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