Five-year-old girl digs up 160million year old fossil with seaside spade!
parentdish.co.uk, 13-09-2011
Emily Baldry, five, was armed with a long-handled children’s spade better suited to building sandcastles – but that’s all she needed to unearth a rare, enormous and perfect fossil thought to be more than 160 million years old. Emily pulled the 9 STONE specimen out of the ground at Cotswold Water Park in Gloucestershire with the help of her father Jon, 40. She took the fossil – which she affectionately dubbed ‘Spike’ – to school to show her friends who, she says, all thought he was ‘great’! The fossilised sea creature has a spiral-patterned shell with inch-long bristles jutting from it to ward off predators
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