‘Man, we found something:’ Girl, 6, uncovers fossil find near Lake Diefenbaker
SASKATOON — A failed search for meteorite fragments has turned into a big fossil find for a six-year-old girl in Saskatchewan.
Lily Ganshorn was out with her dad Jon in an area around Lake Diefenbaker in August when she spotted a big shale rock. Her father says Lily wanted him to break it and he happily obliged.
“As soon as we break it open, all of a sudden it’s like holy smokes … it just started shimmering. I grabbed it, went out, washed the thing off and this thing is just almost glowing. It was so phosphorescent,” Ganshorn said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
“And I’m looking at this thing and it’s like, man, we found something here.”