A chance discovery on Holy Island reveals how a 350-million-year-old marine fossil became part of medieval legend.

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Rock reefs once stretched across thousands of acres of Saginaw Bay, rising from an otherwise flat lake bottom in 25 to 30 feet of water. Formed by glacial movement and ...

After posting images of the stone on a fossil identification page on Facebook, she came to the conclusion that it was an ancient marine mammal called a crinoid.

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