Heaviest man ever finishes marathon, and more

Heaviest man ever finishes marathon

Kelly Gneiting, a 400-pound sumo wrestler, became the heaviest man ever to complete a marathon, when he finished the Los Angeles Marathon in 9 hours, 48 minutes, 52 seconds. He jogged the first 8 miles but walked the rest of the 26.2-mile course. Gneiting said that after mile 10, he became “delirious” and lost track of where he was amid heavy rains and strong winds. “I was really struggling in the last 5 miles, but I said to myself: ‘If I have to crawl, I will’,” he said.

5-year-old discovers rare fossil

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Using a plastic shovel, 5-year-old Emily Baldry of Wiltshire, England, uncovered a 130-pound, 160-million-year-old fossil on her first-ever dig at a nature preserve in Gloucestershire. With the help of her father, Jon, and Neville Hollingworth, a paleontologist, Emily freed the rare Rieneckia ammonite fossil from the ground. “To give you some idea of how rare this is, I have been looking for these for around 25 years, and have only ever found three,” said Hollingworth, who noted that this was the biggest specimen he’d ever seen. The fossil is being cleaned and will soon

go on display.