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Crystal sniffed the woolly rhinoceros bones 250,000 years old. (SWNS)
A Beagle from the UK detected the leg bone of a woolly rhinoceros dead 250,000 years ago.
SWNS reports that four-year-old Crystal was trained by paleontologist, Jamie Jordan, in search of fossils and remains of prehistoric creatures.
"Beagles are well known for their sense of smell and they can be trained to detect drugs, guns and bombs, why not try fossils?" he said.
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Jordan, who runs the museum and the Fossils Galore Education Center in March in Cambridgeshire, trained Crystal to discover the bones of the Ice Age. "They smell very organic, very pungent and clayey," he said.
The Beagle, 4 years old, was trained to discover prehistoric remains. (SWNS)
Crystal's greatest discovery came in 2016 when she sniffed the leg bone of a woolly rhinoceros, dubbed "Stompy". Recently released images show the doggie and its prehistoric price.
The dog receives a treat each time she makes a discovery.
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"If they're on the surface, she'll sniff it and scream to alert us, but if the bone is underground, Crystal will simply dig," Jordan told SWNS.
Crystal and his paleontologist owner, Jamie Jordan. (SWNS)
Jordan was inspired by Victorian pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning, who searched for fossils with her dog Tray on part of the UK's south coast, nicknamed the "Jurassic Coast".
The remarkable life of Anning is described in the next film "Ammonite", in which Kate Winslet plays the role of the fossil hunter.
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Woolly rhinos have appeared about 350,000 years ago and existed until about 10,000 years ago, according to the International Rhino Foundation. "Their fossils are quite common and have been discovered in Europe and Asia," he says on his website. "Well-preserved remains were found frozen in the ice and buried in soils saturated with oil."
Crystal's owner was inspired by Victorian pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning. (SWNS)
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Other amazing prehistoric finds have been made in unlikely circumstances. In 2017, for example, a 10-year-old boy literally stumbled upon a Stegomastodon skull, a million-year-old, during a hike with his family in New Mexico.
Joseph J. Kolb contributed to this article.
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