11-Year-Old Girl Becomes A Sensation After Discovering Something Exceptional At The Tennessee Lake

Mosasaurus (1764)

In between of the late 17th century and 18th century, in central and western Europe some strange looking bones were found along the rivers and lakes. What made this discovery so popular was that it was the first fossil that was found which belonged to an extinct animal. It was naturalist Georges Cuvier who discovered it and because of this discovery scientists excepted that before them there were some species who lived, and died, millions of years before human stepped on the planet.