A routine family outing along the Suffolk coast turned into an unexpected encounter with Britain's distant prehistoric past when an 11-year-old boy noticed an unusual object lying close to the water's edge. At first glance, it looked a little different from the countless stones scattered across the shoreline, yet its shape suggested it was something else entirely.

A routine family outing along the Suffolk coast turned into an unexpected encounter with Britain's distant prehistoric past when an 11-year-old boy noticed an unusual object lying…

Charlie Orchard-Lisle was walking with his family along England’s Suffolk coast when he noticed an unusual object near the waves; experts later identified it as a fossilized molar…