A student was looking for fossils and found a snitch. But the magic didn't end there - inside was an ancient creature

A British student and aspiring archaeologist found an ancient fossil on the beach. Not only does it resemble a magic snatch from the Harry Potter saga, but it also hides the traces of an unknown creature. However, the find only appears to be gold, and the creature is long extinct, but this only adds to the mystery of the artifact.

A medical student and part-time amateur archaeologist named Aaron Smith regularly walked the beaches in search of fossils. And one day in the town of Whitby, UK, the 23-year-old antiquities hunter was incredibly lucky: he found a real treasure

The guy stumbled upon the oldest fossil, which is about 185 million years old. But not only that, the find is all shimmering gold, hardly fits in the hand and looks, according to journalists, like a snitch - the smallest and fastest ball in the sports game from the writer Joanne Rowling - Quidditch.

The real version of the magic ball looks even more impressive than in “Harry Potter”. Although the only thing they have in common is that it is incredibly difficult to find or catch such a ball.

The guy's find is not quite gold: the luster is due to the fact that the fossil is coated with iron pyrite. This is a mineral that can easily be confused with a well-known noble metal, but it is not of the same value. Pyrite was even called “fool's gold” during the gold rushes because it was often confused with the jewel.

However, the uniqueness of the find does not end with all this. The student decided to examine the stone and for this purpose divided it into two halves.

And after opening it, he discovered inside the stone there are some clear traces of the presence of an ancient creature: inside the stone there are several clear spirals. As the publication suggests, these are traces of some already extinct cephalopod like a squid or octopus, or maybe all at once.

The happy owner of the artifact is sure: you can find such things anywhere, you just need to be patient.

You can find fossils almost anywhere in the world, you just have to make a lot of effort!

But even after you find something, it's too early to rejoice: you'll have to work hard.

When you find a fossil, you have to get to it, and then begins the long and complicated process of carefully removing the stone. In most cases, it takes hundreds of hours.

However, the effort is worth the result, the treasure hunter believes. The process of searching is so exciting that it is not a pity to spend months on it. By the way, he has many interesting specimens in his collection, because he is an experienced fossil hunter.

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