A Nebraska man fishing in a match acquired greater than he bargained for after casting his line into the Missouri River earlier this month.
Andy Moore was fishing west of Yankton, South Dakota, when he snagged a rock within the water and kayaked over to take a more in-depth look, reported NBC affiliate WOWT.
“I stand up to it, and I’m like, ‘Oh wow! That’s sort of cool,’” Moore instructed the outlet.
“I believed it was an enormous catfish skeleton or a deer skeleton. One thing instructed me to take an image of this.”
Moore shared footage of the thing on-line, WOWT mentioned, and somebody reached out to counsel that it could possibly be a prehistoric fossil.
The fisherman later contacted a biologist with the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers, who confirmed to WOWT that Moore’s discover appears to be a predator fish fossil that's as much as 90 million years outdated.
“I’m nonetheless sort of mind-blown about the entire thing,” Moore mentioned.
The fossil received’t be underwater anymore, because it’s now being ready for show on the Lewis and Clark Customer Middle in Crofton, Nebraska.
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