Boy trips over 1 million-year-old fossil, making rare discovery

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) — Breakthrough research is underway on a 1 million-year-old fossil found in New Mexico. What makes this story even more interesting is the 10-year-old local boy who made the rare discovery.
The one-ton stegomastodon skull is being kept on the New Mexico State University campus at the Vertebrate Museum. It may look familiar to you because scientists say this is the ancestor to the modern day elephants.
Researchers are using the massive head to learn more about the pr