From the Ottawa Citizen:
In 1997, amateur paleontologist Nathan Isotalo found a fossilized worm the ROM now says is rare and important, writes Zev Singer.
For an amateur paleontologist, it was the big find: Nathan Isotalo was chipping through a large rock from an Ottawa construction site in 1997 and found an extremely rare and significant fossil.
But when he hit this jackpot, no bells rang and no lights flashed. There was just silence -- for 13 years.... more
