Nine-year-old Jude Sparks was playing with his brother in the New Mexican desert when he tripped and landed beside a massive skull. "I didn't know what it was," Sparks, now aged 10, told El Paso ABC ...

A group of campers celebrating a bachelor party at a New Mexico state park Monday stumbled upon the fossil of a 3-million-year-old elephant-like creature called a stegomastodon. The Las Cruces ...

Jude Sparks literally stumbled upon this Stegomastodon fossil while playing in New Mexico in November, 2016. New Mexico State University A nine-year-old boy from New Mexico physically stumbled upon a ...

Back in November, 9-year-old Jude Sparks was hiking with his family in New Mexico’s Las Cruces desert when he tripped over something and fell. Jude’s face landed next to what appeared to be a massive ...

Researchers have their hands on a rare fossil from the Pleistocene era thanks to a 10-year-old's clumsiness. Jude Sparks said he literally fell on the 1.2-million-year-old skull of a stegomastodon -- ...

A hike can be a great outdoorsy activity to help distract your mind from the everyday perils of life, but for one family in New Mexico, it meant opening a whole new can of worms. The family, ...

In the dry desert of New Mexico, a 10-year-old boy stumbled and fell. As he looked around, he found he’d made a startling discovery: a 1.2 million-year-old fossil. The remains turned out to be those ...

During the weeklong extraction process, 10 to 12 people helped at different times with the excavation of the stegomastodon skull. A 10-year boy has accidentally discovered a rare, mostly intact 1.2 ...

The remains were identified as a Stegomastodon. — -- A piece of history has been found thanks to a boy stumbling upon a rare, 1.2 million-year-old animal fossil. In November 2016, Jude Sparks, ...

SIERRA COUNTY, NM (WLS) -- Bachelor party mastodon skull and tusk find in Elephant Butte Lake State Park believed to be that of stegomastodon. A bachelor party stumbled upon what appears to be the ...

Jude Sparks was hiking in the New Mexico desert back in November with his parents and playing with walkie-talkies with his brothers when he made an accidental discovery. The little boy was running ...

A 3 million year old fossil was discovered by a New Mexico bachelor party. June 13, 2014— -- Plenty of crazy things can happen at bachelor parties, but celebrants in New Mexico had the sobering ...