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Boy literally stumbles upon prehistoric fossil

A 10-year-old boy in New Mexico found a 1.2-million-year-old fossil when he tripped and fell on a hike. It turned out to be a stegomastodon, a prehistoric ancestor of the elephant. KRQE's Sara Yingling reports.
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