Coeur d'Alene middle schoolers hunt for fossils within ancient rocks
Bella Dirks uses a hammer to tap a chisel into a shale chunk as Taitum Ellis holds on in suspense Thursday morning at Lakes Middle School.
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Brooklyn Blair, left, and Atticus Wintzer work to split open sedimentary shale to discover impressions of ancient organisms Thursday morning in Allison Frazier's class at Lakes Middle School.
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Lakes seventh graders Abby Culpepper, left, and Kristabella Thorne show off imprints of leaves and other ancient flora they discovered Thursday morning after splitting open shale from the Stonerose Eocene Fossil Site.
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COEUR d'ALENE — Tap, chip, tap, chip, tippity tap tap tap ... Eureka!
"We actually split it!" Lakes Middle School seventh grader Alex Terry announced Thursday morning in Allison Frazier's class as he and classmate Ruby Zaike worked open a piece of ancient sedimentary shale.
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