Five-Year-Old Girl Unearths Vetebra Of 50,000-year-old rhinoceros

A five year old girl, Emelia Fawbert unearthed the vertebra of an Ice Age woolly rhinoceros which roamed the area about 50,000 years ago during a fossil hunt with her family. The 16-inch long bone, described as a rare find by paleontologists, was poking up from the ground at Cotswold Water Park, Glos.

The girl was accompanied by her father James Fawbert, 33, and grandfather Geoffrey Fawbert, 61 of Cirencester, Glos.

The father said, “It was really exciting when she spotted it sticking out of the clay.....It looked really impressive but, to be honest, none of us had a clue what it was until the experts told us.Emelia, wants to be a paleontologist when she grows up and knows everything about dinosaurs, mammoths and such creatures.

She said, ”I really like animals and dinosaurs so I have told all my friends and teachers about what I found."

Neville Hollingworth, from the Scientific Forming Technologies Corporation, in Swindon, Wilts, and the hunt leader said "It was spectacularly rare to find something like that and even more incredible for someone so young to find it."