"Dinosaur-mad" schoolboys find ancient fossils Two recent
unexpected fossil finds in New Zealand and Argentina share an
unusual factor - both have been uncovered by dinosaur-obsessed
school-age boys. On a New Zealand beach, a five-year-old
discovered what turned out to be a fossilised whale earbone that
could be up to four million years old, while in Argentina, a
10-year-old and his parents have discovered the remains of an
85-million-year-old dinosaur. Five-year-old New Zealander Ben
McRae was combing rock pools on a beach in Waiheke Island off
Auckland, when he made the find, which stayed in his bedroom for
six months before a family friend and geologist suggested he
take it for further examination, the New Zealand Herald
reported. Palaeontologists at Auckland University identified it
as the right tympanic bulla or inner earbone from a large whale
that cruised the world's oceans between half a million and four
million years ago. The university's Professor Jack Grant-Mackie
said its exact age was guesswork b