A Kid Found a 1.2-Million-Year-Old Stegomastodon Fossil by Tripping Over It
(via Atlas Obscura) Jude Sparks wasn’t looking for fossils; he was running around with his brothers on a desert walk. He wasn’t looking where he was going. He tripped. He had fallen over the fossilized bones of a creature that died at least 1.2 million years ago.
