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Tennessee girl finds 475-million-year-old fossil

Ryleigh Taylor, 11, poses with the fossil she discovered.
Ryleigh Taylor, 11, poses with the fossil she discovered. Ryleigh Taylor, 11, poses with the fossil she discovered.
photo Ryleigh Taylor, 11, found a trilobite fossil in Dandrige, Tennessee.

Ryleigh Taylor was fishing at Douglas Lake in Dandridge with her parents last Monday when she decided to take a break and go for a walk.

It was a lucky walk.

Instead of catching a fish, she acquired something a little more rare. Something 475 million years in the making.

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