Six year old girl digs up 160myo fossil using a plastic spade

[pokerfan]

Emily Baldry beams with pride as she poses with a 160million-year-old fossil she dug up using a seaside spade.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2011/09/13/girl-six-digs-up-160million-year-old-fossil-using-plastic-spade-115875-23416181

[blue neen]

1. What an amazing find...and an amazing kid!

:)

[pokerfan]

5. Artist's reconstruction of Asteroceras

These things were hugh! The largest documented North American ammonite is Parapuzosia bradyi from the Cretaceous with specimens measuring 4.5 feet in diameter, although a new 7.5-foot British Columbian specimen, if authentic, would appear to trump even the European champion.

[xchrom]

2. Awesome. Nt

[Taverner]

3. Holy Freakin Shit Batman! I was totally expecting a rock that looked like a pile of dirt

A full mollusk!

Wow!

Too cool!

[CrispyQ]

4. Smart girls rock!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[leveymg]

6. She gets the Show-n-Tell prize for the epoch.

Epoch cool.

[Speck Tater]

7. See. There's no reason to fund science. We just need to pass plastic shovels out to kids.

:sarcasm:

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Lol ! How frikkin' adorable............

[Odin2005]

9. Way too damned cute! That'll make an awsome Show-n-Tell!

[bluedigger]

10. So what's she going to do with the rest of her life?

Way to go, little girl!:thumbsup:

[Enthusiast]

11. The amonites, along with the non-avian dinosaurs, became

extinct at the end of the cretaceous 65 million years ago. The amonites were preyed on by mosasaurs like these. I'm just saying. I love this stuff.

[and-justice-for-all]

12. That is awesome...nt