Unbelievable trove of fossils dating back 9million years are found underneath a high school - and they're rewriting US history

Hundreds of fossils have been discovered under a California high school - in a find that is rewriting the state's history. San Pedro High School in Los Angeles County was under construction when workers unearthed fossils that are nearly nine million years old. Construction workers discovered fossils buried under San Pedro High School in Southern California that are nearly nine million years old Fossils that had remained at the site for millions of years were found scattered across two locations on the San Pedro campus. Austin Hendy, an assistant curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County said the way the fossils were laid out painted an image of where the shoreline met the sea nine million years ago. While the majority of the fossils were of marine animals, the researchers also discovered the skull of a sandpaper bird that lived more than eight million years ago.