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Appropriately enough, he found it in the protection of Dinosaur Hill Nature, WDIV Ave.
“I felt something on my feet and I grabbed it, and it kind of looked like a tooth,” said 6-year-old Julian Gagnon.
First, they thought it was your standard stone, and the center of nature, perhaps the dinosaur’s tooth.
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However, after a quick Google search, they realized it was a mastodon.
“At first I thought I was going to make money. I was going to gonna make a million dollars. Shame on now, “Gagnon said.
But this has not happened on Eust.
Researchers confirmed the family’s guess at the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontologists.
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Not that, but it is a rare discovery.
“Honestly, I’m a little jealous, personally, of the mining fossil is what I want to do every day,” said Abbie Drake with the UGM Museum of Natural History.
They have a pretty rare specimen on the mastodons and when it comes to the 8th state as a fossil of the state, finding it left out of them is hard to come by.
Drake W. Aik said, “It is difficult to be safe as a fossil when an animal dies. Yay, it is often lost ave.
Gagnon’s father wanted to throw his teeth back in, but both the vectors and nature centers believe that a valuable lesson can be learned from this source.
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“The great thing about nature is that you never know you’re going to find it, and even if you’re an expert, it doesn’t mean you’re going to find things,” Amanda Falk, programmed. Director Dinosaur Hill Nature Reserve.
That’s what they do because it’s so incredible. Mastodons date back over 12,000 years and is a nod to this discovery’s history and future.
“I really wanted to be an archaeologist, but I think it was a sign that I was going to be a paleontologist,” Gagnon said.
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