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9-Year-Old Finds Dinosaur Fossil
November 28, 2009 | MyFoxDC.com

A 9-year-old girl from Annandale, Maryland found a fragment of a dinosaur vertebrae at a newly-opened dinosaur park where visitors can help paleontologists.


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