Scientists discover ancient fish species and they have a 10-year-old boy to thank .so be enthusiast.

Researchers find antiquated fish species and they have a 10-year-old kid to thank

New Delhi: Children are known to be greatly inquisitive and curious, yet who realized that it would bring about a mind blowing revelation?

A 10-year-old kid's interest driven scientistss to find a never-seen types of fish in Colombia.

The youthful visitor was strolling into the Monastery of La Candelaria amid a visit when he detected the state of a fish in a flagstone on the ground and clicked a photo, which he later appeared to the staff at the Centro de Investigaciones Paleontologicas.

The fossil, Candelarhynchus padillai, is around 90 million years of age and has no advanced relatives, said Oksana Vernygora from the University of Alberta in Canada.

The staff at the middle perceived the picture as a fossil fish immediately, specialists said.

Alison Murray, teacher at University of Alberta, joined her partners in the South American nation to remember the means of the youthful traveler, who was 10 years of age at the time, close to the town of Raquira Boyaca.

The group found an about immaculate, in place fossil of an antiquated fish. 

It was the principal fossil "reptile angle" from the Cretaceous time frame at any point found in Colombia and tropical South America, specialists said.

"It is uncommon to discover such a total fossil of a fish from this minute in the Cretaceous time frame. Deepwater angle are hard to recuperate, and those from conditions with quick streaming waters," said Vernygora.

"In any case, what shocks me the most is that, following two years of being on a walkway, it was as yet in place. It is stunning," said Vernygora.

The revelation adds to the developing and critical collection of writing on the fossil record in the tropic.