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Nature 441, 390 (25 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441390a; Published online 24 May 2006

Teenager waits 40 years for recognition

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Fossil is finally hailed as new Asian plesiosaur.

Tadashi Suzuki was a fossil-mad high-school student when he discovered some ancient bones in a riverbank near his home. He wrote to a local palaeontologist about them, thinking he might have discovered a plesiosaur.

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