Everyone picks up souvenirs when they go to the beach, but we bet no souvenir you ever picked up was a piece of history!
A 10-year-old student from Oxford, England who is has a avid learner of prehistory, found a set of fossilized footprints on a beach in Cornwall while vacationing with his family! Bruno Debattista believed the fossil was footprints and suspected that they were very old.
When scientists from Oxford University Museum of Natural History took a closer look at it, they found out that not only had Bruno indeed found a set of fossilized footprints, but that they dated back about 300 million years!
They were also impressed with the fact that Bruno immediately knew that they were footprints when scientists argued over what they exactly were before coming to the same conclusion.
Bruno donated the fossil to the museum allowing thousands of people to see it for themselves.