The discovery caught the attention of a curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian, who said the woman found the fossil of a Desmostylian.
OREGON, USA — One woman made a very rare and unique discovery while walking along the beach near Newport: a more than 20-million-year-old fossil.
The fossil was some teeth from a Desmostylian, which resembled a hippopotamus and spent most of its time in the ocean.
According to a Reddit post, the teeth were spotted in late March while the woman was looking for agates.
The finding off the coast has been getting a lot of attention, even catching
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