# @bbcnews on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DU73Yo-Df3E
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/56990056-bbcnews-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/6d5f489081.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-02-19T10:01:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BBC News (@bbcnews) — https://gondola.cc/bbcnews

## Caption

"It looked like someone's fake teeth." 😬
 
Christine Clark was hunting for fossils during a recent walk on Holy Island, Northumberland, UK, when something caught her eye.
 
She picked it up, took it home and posted the picture on a Facebook fossil identification page.
 
Thousands of likes and comments later, others seemed to confirm her suspicion that it was, in fact, an ancient marine animal.
 
The BBC has had the fossil identified by the British Geological Survey which confirmed it is a larger part of an ancient sea creature known as a crinoid.
 
Tap the link in BBCNews’s bio to find out more about this sea creature.
 
(📸 Tony Jolliffe / BBC)
 
#Fossil #BBCNews

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## Tags

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