Discoveries and Breakthroughs

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The Mary Sue
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This Illinois boy found a fossil in his own yard, now he holds a Guinness record for his own downtown museum

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (673+ words) Anderson Taylor, an 11-year-old from Cambridge, Illinois, just became the youngest male museum curator in the world. According to The Smithsonian, the Guinness World Record was officially awarded to him after he opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in his…...

All That's Interesting
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An 11-Year-Old And His Dad Just Found A Prehistoric Megalodon Tooth On A New Jersey Beach

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (860+ words) Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center/FacebookMichael Bowers and his son, Bo, stumbled upon a four-inch megalodon tooth while vacationing on the Jersey Shore. The Bowers family was enjoying an otherwise normal vacation in Sea Isle City, New Jersey,…...

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Prehistoric find: Family vacation ends with megalodon souvenir

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (19+ words) Researchers confirm a large, intact megalodon tooth found by a family in New Jersey is a rare prehistoric discovery....

The Independent
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Father and son make amazing prehistoric discovery on NJ beach

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (406+ words) Megalodons went extinct approximately 3.58 million years ago A Pennsylvania family vacationing in New Jersey discovered something prehistoric and rare during their trip to the beach: the fossilized tooth of a megalodon. Megalodons were enormous sharks that lived approximately 23 to 3.58 million…...