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The Ghost Shark Hunter Who Finds Fossils Everywhere | Brisbane News

The Ghost Shark Hunter Who Finds Fossils Everywhere | Brisbane News

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A firefighter in Richmond, Australia—nicknamed the “fossil capital”—stumbled onto a near-perfect ghost shark fossil on his first try, sparking a passion for paleontology that’s turning everyday digs into epic discoveries. Enright pulls up hundreds of fossils daily, from ichthyosaurs and elasmosaurs to ancient squid and fish scales, even assembling a 10-meter elasmosaur nicknamed Moria. With 200K followers, he livestreams his finds and teamed up with famed paleontologist Dean Lomax for a documentary, proving that passion and social media can bridge the gap between amateurs and academia—and that anyone can rewrite history, one fossil at a time.

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