Last year, Julian Caners was rushing to soccer practice with his dad when he accidentally found a fossil. It happened while the nine-year-old from Edmonton while getting out of the car at Meridian Sports Park in Parkland County. “I saw like a big rock right beside where we parked, so I went to pick it up and asked my dad if I could keep it,” Caners said.
“He said no, so I just snuck it into the car.” Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "He said no, so I just snuck it into the car." His mom, Lisa Matthias, said Julian has a knack for finding fossils, but usually it’s things like petrified wood or unique-looking rocks.
“But when he brought it home from practice that day, my husband and I were like, ‘That looks like a horse tooth.’ It’s this huge three-inch tooth of some kind of old animal,” said Matthias. “I think that was probably one of the biggest fossils he’s found.
Story continues below advertisement “He was pretty excited — it’s a really unique-looking thing.” Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "He was pretty excited — it's a really unique-looking thing." Luckily, Julian’s dad works at the Royal Alberta Museum and often sees artifacts.
So, he gave the tooth to his colleague Dr. Christina Barron-Ortiz, curator of quaternary paleontology. View image in full screen Dr.
Christina Barron-Ortiz holds an ice age horse tooth found near Stony Plain. Jaclyn Kucey, Global News Dr. Barron-Ortiz studied ice age horse fossils, so she.