Alabama School of Math and Science student Lindsey Stallworth works with fossils in her high school’s research space. This summer, she and a professor discovered a rare, 30-million-year-old whale fossil on her family’s farm in Monroe County. (Alabama School of Math and Science)
MONROE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — For about 30 million years a whale skeleton hid below the surface of the earth on what is today farmland in south Alabama until a high school student uncovered the rare find.
Lindsey Stallworth, a junior at the Alabama School of Math and Science in Mobile, has collected fossils on her family’s Monroe County farm since she was a child.
“We would go out and pick up shark teeth and fossil shells, but we never knew anyone that could tell us anything about them,” said…
