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11-Year-Old Discovers 48-Million-Year-Old Turtle Fossil on Public Lands in Wyoming
It looked like an ordinary stone. But in the vast, wind-swept terrain of southwestern Wyoming, an 11-year-old boy paused — and changed the story of a 48-million-year-old landscape. Last fall, while exploring Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public land in the Greater Green River Basin, young fossil enthusiast Touren made a discovery that has since…