11-Year-Old Discovers 48-Million-Year-Old Fossil While Searching for Rocks with His Grandparents

“It blew all of our minds," his mother said of the prehistoric find ...

11-year-old finds 48-million-year-old turtle fossil while rock hunting

CASPER, Wyo. (WKRC) - An 11-year-old boy discovered a nearly complete fossilized turtle during a rock-hunting trip in southwest Wyoming, officials with Bureau of Land Management said. Touren Pope was ...
All That's Interesting

‘It Blew All Of Our Minds’: A 48-Million-Year-Old Turtle Shell Was Found By An 11-Year-Old In Wyoming

Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...
Newser on MSN

11-year-old's fossil find 'blew all of our minds'

An 11-year-old's casual rock hunt in Wyoming ended with a big fossil find. While searching for quartz crystals and other rocks on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in southwest Wyoming with his ...
The New York Times

Two New Dinosaur Fossils Emerge From the ‘Mummy Zone’

A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be mummified. By Jack Tamisiea During a 1908 dig in Wyoming, the fossil hunter ...
TribLIVE.com

Dino digger: Norwin grad gathers fossils from Wyoming, aids research in Pittsburgh

Nick Hornicak of North Huntingdon digs dinosaurs, literally. The 24-year-old Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate student was part of a team of fellow dinosaur diggers who in June worked in the ...