A western Kentucky man has made an interesting find at a Webster County coal mine. Twenty-five year old Jay Wright of Dixon dislodged an 18-inch jawbone fossil during the course of a workday. As Brenna Angel reports, it's a discovery that caught the attention of scientists at the Kentucky Geological Survey.
Wright, who normally works a continuous miner machine, was bolting the roof one February afternoon when he found something that wasn't coal.
"Well I was pinning a cross cut and I noticed a little bit of flaky rock which actually fell a little bit. So I went ahead and reached up there and pried a little bit more down and as soon as I pried it down, there was a big ole shark jaw sitting there in the top."
There, four miles underground, was an 18-inch jawbone fossil. Wright has seen smaller fossils and sea shells in the mine, but nothing like an ancient shark bone....