David Shiffler Found Dinosaur Eggshell

In 1995, a 3-year-old boy named David Shiffler was digging in the dirt in New Mexico with his toy backhoe when he spotted what he thought was a dinosaur eggshell. His father did not believe him at first and answered with a shrug, but the family kept the strange piece anyway. Scientists later confirmed that the fragment came from a real dinosaur egg from the Jurassic Period, found in the Rio Puerco Valley west of Albuquerque.

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