A ridge of shell weathering out of the Bridger Formation on Bureau of Land Management ground in southwest Wyoming caught the eye of Touren Pope, 11, of Nevada; the soft-shelled turtle he named Little Timmy is about 48 million years old, and a small toy sits beside it for scale in the photo.

A ridge of shell weathering out of the Bridger Formation on Bureau of Land Management ground in southwest Wyoming caught the eye of Touren Pope, 11, of Nevada; the soft-shelled turtle he named Little Timmy is about 48 million years old, and a small toy sits beside it for scale in the photo.

When an 11-year-old's keen eye spotted something unusual in a Wyoming badlands, he uncovered a 48-million-year-old turtle that museums had never seen before.