CAPE EGMONT, Prince Edward Island — A Canadian teacher out for a walk stumbled upon a rare fossil that appears to date back to before dinosaurs walked the Earth.
Lisa Cormier, a teacher on Prince Edward Island, was walking in Cape Egmont on Monday afternoon when she saw something partially buried, she told CBC.
“I saw something that I thought was a root,” Cormier told CBC. “And when I looked closer at it, I realized that there were ribs. And then I saw the spine, and the skull.”
Cormier, who currently teaches French and history to high schoolers, used to teach middle school science, and told The Washington Post that she immediately knew what she found was a fossil. But at the time, she had no idea how special her find was.
John Calder, a geologist and paleontologist, told The Washington Postthat the fossil is likely 300 million years …
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