Low tide reveals rare marine fossil
July 27, 2011
Sometimes finding a fossil is as easy as a walk on the beach. That’s what happened
in May when a member of a geological team working in Southeast Alaska chanced upon
a find during an extremely low tide.
Something caught team member Eugene Primaky’s eye. It turned out to be a fossil of
a prehistoric marine reptile called a thalattosaur. It may be the most complete fossil
of its kind found in North America.
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