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The world's smallest cowboy, two-year-old Royce Gill, is to compete in a rodeo with his pony Maybelline, reported the Daily Mail.

The toddler from New South Wales in Australia is the seventh-generationrodeo rider in his family and will be competing against 17-year-olds inthe rodeo.

A ten-year-old girl has found a 160-year-old fossil from the Jurassicperiod in her own back garden, said the Metro.

Harriet Marshall, from Gateshead, was helping her mum with some diggingwhen she uncovered the rare fossil, which has since been identified as abelemnite, a squid-like creature.