A 32-Million-Year-Old Find Just Shook Alabama History

Have there ever been dinosaurs in the state of Alabama?

Yes, in the year 2025, we're actually talking about dinosaurs in Alabama. People have spotted UFO's, strange animals, Big Foot himself and plenty of other things in this state. There's been many strange things that's happened in the state of Alabama so seeing Dinosuars may not be so farfetched.

According to a post earlier this month, there was a dinosaur tooth discovered from a duck-billed dinosaur in Greene County earlier this Summer.

Well now it's looking like more remains of huge creatures have been discovered in the YellowHammer state.

According to a post from Yahoo, The Coleman family stumbled upon a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle shell that was fully intact while on a family fishing trip. These sea turtles are said to be the largest in the world.

32 million years is a long time!

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Could you imagine finding something that is that old? It almost seems impossible.

“This, in essence, was like the Rosetta Stone of fossil leatherback sea turtles from this period of time. Their shells simply do not fossilize intact, and you have to have the perfect conditions,” said Paleontologist Drew Gentry, the senior education and research manager at the Gulf Coast State Park Learning campus according to Yahoo. 

Well, if a 32-million-year-old fossil can be found in Alabama fully intact, there may be no limit to what other fossils await discovery in the Yellow Hammer state.