On Christmas morning, Molly Sampson told her mother that she wanted to go fossil hunting at a nearby beach and uncover an extinct megalodon fossil. She eventually succeeded in doing so.
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Long lost ‘sea dragon’ ichthyosaur fossil
During the Mesozoic, marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs dominated the oceans for approximately 160 million years. At the beginning of the 19th century, curiosity over their peculiar fossils led to the development of paleontology.