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13-year-old boy found 5-million-year-old fossil and now a new walrus species has been named in his honor

Forrest Sheperd is a teenager walking on the beach near where he found an ancient walrus skull.Forrest Shepherd A 13-year-old fossil enthusiast found a walrus skull in a rock in Northern California in 2011. Eleven years later, a paleontologist named a previously unknown, now extinct species after him. The toothless walrus probably lived near temperate… Read More »