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Title: Bored by soccer game, girl digs in dirt, finds 65-million-year-old fossil
Post by: rangerrebew on March 22, 2018, 03:31:10 pm

Bored by soccer game, girl digs in dirt, finds 65-million-year-old fossil

Published March 22, 2018
Newser

At 7 years old, Naomi Vaughan probably has a hard time wrapping her head around a 65 million-year span. But that's the minimum amount of time elapsed between the death of a tiny sea creature and when Naomi picked up its remains.

Bored with her sister's soccer game in Bend, Ore., last fall, Naomi started digging in the dirt and found what she thought was a shiny rock resembling the spiral-shaped amulet featured in Disney's Moana.


http://www.newser.com/story/256895/girls-moana-rock-actually-something-more.html (http://www.newser.com/story/256895/girls-moana-rock-actually-something-more.html)