Not Just Any Old Rock

Watch where you’re walking; you might discover a 475 million year-old fossil, like Ryleigh Taylor! The 11 year-old found a trilobite fossil in Tennessee. Trilobites are arthropods related to the horseshoe crab. She and her mom, who home-schools her, contacted a paleobiologist to investigate its age. Ryleigh wants to display her fossil in a museum for all to see!

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