Lucky fossil hunter finds prehistoric sea creature inside ‘golden snitch’ on English coast

“The majority of the time there is nothing really to be found but every now and again, if you’re lucky enough, and something has appeared due to a storm for example, then you might find a rock with a fossil inside it.

“When you find a fossil, then the long intricate process begins of carefully removing the stone to expose the fossil, this can take hundreds of hours in many cases.

“It’s very exciting discovering the fossils. It makes it all worthwhile after spending months of searching.”

The striking finds come as archaeologists in South America have unearthed the 2000-year-old bodies of two infants, wearing “helmets” made from the bones of other children, in a major discovery.

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