11-Year-Old Stumbles Across 475-Million-Year-Old Fossil
Talk about some good luck.
By David Grossman
May 4, 2018
An 11-year old in Eastern Tennessee just offered the perfect reason to get outside this summer—you might discover a 475-million-year-old fossil.
Ryleigh Taylor was walking along the shore of Douglas Lake, near the Great Smoky Mountains, when she discovered something that didn't quite look like a rock. Rather, the deep imprint looked like something embedded within a rock. Showing it to her family, she was fairly certain that it was a fossil.
The family reached out to a paleontologist at the nearby University of Tennessee, who was able to confirm that Taylor had found a complete trilobite.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a20154479/11-year-old-trilobite-fossil-tennessee/
