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Sacramento students’ muddy find shocks teacher A young Sacramento student on a nature walk found a petrified whale vertebrae that is an estimated 11,000 years old. Share Shares Copy Link Copy

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WEBVTT HE PULLED FROM THE MUDDY BANK. >> THE WILDERNESS SCHOOL PUTS AN EMPHASIS ON NATURE. LAST MONTH, THIS GROUP FIRST GREATEST A WALK INTO THE HISTORY BOOKS THANKS TO THE OBSERVANT EYES OF A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD AND -- SEVEN-YEAR-OLD. >> I WALKED AROUND AND I FOUND IT. >> THAT IS THIS. >> HE BROUGHT IT TO ME. WE WERE PUZZLING ABOUT IT. >> THE CLASS AS A WHOLE HAD SO MANY QUESTIONS. WHAT WAS THIS THING? THEY APPROACHED THE EXPERTS. >> I CONTACTED AT UC DAVIS AND SENT THEM PHOTOGRAPHS. THEY BEGAN TO TELL US THIS IS A FOSSILIZED WHALE. >> HOW OLD? >> WE KNOW IT'S OVER 11,000 YEARS OLD. >> IT COULD BE MORE THAN 2 MILLION YEARS OLD. BACK INSIDE , THEY HAVE JUMPED AT THE CHANCE TO USE THIS AS A TEACHING TOOL. HER PEERS WANT THEIR HANDS ON IT TOO. >> THEY ARE ANXIOUSLY AWAITING, ESPECIALLY THE HIGH SCHOOL. >> I JUST THE. IT WAS MEDIUM HEAVY.