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.
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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