10 year-old discovers million-year-old dinosaur fossil discovery in New Mexico

Jude Sparks was hiking the rugged New Mexico desert some five miles east of Las Cruces by the majestic Organ Mountains in November with his parents Kyle and Michelle and brothers, Hunter,8 and Rhett, 5.

Jude said he and his brothers were checking their hand-held radios when he tripped on something.

When he turned his head he was looking directly at part of what looked like a jaw bone.

“It looked like large chunks of bone.” “I think this is only the second full Stegomastodon skull found in the state of New Mexico,” Peter Houde, professor of Biology at nearby New Mexico State University, said.

UCJ, UNILORIN.