Emily Baldry , an endearing 5 - year - quondam miss from the UK , was doing what a normal Thomas Kyd her age would be doing : Hanging out at with her family and digging . Unlike other normal kidskin though , she notice a 160 million year one-time fogy . She called it Spike .
It ’s an perfectly awful and rarified discovery that happened by complete chance : Emily was just using a plastic nigra to dig around on her first organised dig tripper at Cotsworld Water Park in the UK with her dad . Little did she know what would come out of it : the Rieneckia odysseus fossil — which is like a gigantic mollusk from the Jurrasic period—16 - in in diam and completely intact , other fossilized ammonites in the UK have all been fragmentize into minuscule composition .
Emily in reality made the find last year ( so she ’s now 6 ) but only got to see Spike this past week because geologist had to restore the fossil ( it primitively looked like a mud blockage ) . Emily was grateful for that and said :
It is so exciting to see him . I was very happy when I first saw him and now he looks very shiny .
I hope she keep dig . [ Daily Mail ]
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