Amateur Fossil Hunter Finds 84 Million Year Old Fossilized Turtle on Vancouver Island

Amateur Fossil Hunter Finds 84 Million Year Old Fossilized Turtle on Vancouver Island
COURTENAY, B.C.—Russell Ball was taking one of his usual walks along Vancouver Island’s Puntledge River on a cool, grey day in January when he noticed something out of the ordinary.
As he knelt down and began chipping away around the patch of brown, he felt a familiar feeling as it grew bigger and bigger.
There’s a glee that comes when you think you’ve found a new fossil, or are about to break open a concretion, the compact mass that forms around fossilized materials, he said.

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