Emily Bzdyk found a rare intact skull of a dolphin-like creature that once swam in the waters off Calvert County, Maryland. It could be a new species.
as well bone shards of other long extinct sea animals from the Calvert Cliffs along the Chesapeake Bay for years. But what Bzdyk had stumbled upon was rare — and possibly unprecedented.
“I was very excited when I figured what it might be,” said Bzdyk, a volunteer at the Calvert Marine Museum on Solomons Island. “I had never found anything so put together. I always find fragments of bones.”Bzdyk snapped a photo and quickly sent it to Stephen Groff, an assistant paleontology collection manager at the museum.
“With fossils, it’s all a game of chance,” he said. “It’s managed to survive the test of time. … We got lucky here.”Bzdyk said she was hunting fossils on a Saturday night because the tide was low, which makes conditions favorable for discoveries. Also important: Her husband was able to watch their two children. Bzdyk said it was the first time she had gone fossil hunting at night.Bzdyk and Groff said they returned to the scene the next day to excavate the fossil.
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