Unexpectedly Amazing Fossil Discoveries.
Paleontologists often spend years searching for fossils, but some of the most fantastic discoveries have been made by accident. These include mammoth fossils found during construction work in Mexico, an 8-foot-long millipede fossil discovered on a beach in England, and an 85,000-year-old ancient whale skeleton found in a Taiwanese jungle. Other accidental finds include a 200 million-year-old dinosaur bone found in rubble, a Stegomastodon tusk discovered by a 9-year-old boy in New Mexico, and a remarkably well-preserved nodosaur fossil found during mining operations in Canada.