This 10-year-old boy is being credited with the discovery of a rare fossil buried deep in the New Mexican desert.
Jude Sparks and his family were exploring the Las Cruces desert back in November when he tripped on a protruding substance that was jutting out from the rock.
When Sparks fell to the ground, he came face to face with a strange looking jaw bone and tusk.Upon examining the fossils, the family decided to call Peter Houde, a biology professor at the New Mexico State University.
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Houde was shocked to find that the boy had unearthed a 1.2 million-year-old stegomastodon skull.
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