10-year-old spots huge error in Museum

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Wed, 09 Aug 2017 - 07:35 GMT

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London's Natural History Museum via Flickr

London's Natural History Museum via Flickr

CAIRO - 9 August 2017: A 10-year-old boy has managed to spot an error in a dinosaur exhibit in London's Museum of Natural History that even the staff hadn't noticed. The boy, Charlie Edwards, visited the museum with his family and pointed out that the sign for the Oviraptor exhibit was mislabeled, showing another dinosaur instead.

Charlie tells the BBC, "I found a side-by-side comparison of the dinosaur, and I saw it said Oviraptor, but then the shape of the dinosaur was wrong and we told a member of the staff."

His parents remained skeptical that there had actually been a mistake in one of London's most reputable museums until they received an email from the museum confirming the mistake and saying that it would be shortly corrected.

According to his mother, Charlie has Asperger's syndrome, which causes him to focus to an intense degree on what he's passionate about. The boy's unique mind and love for dinosaurs allowed him to point out an error that even trained professionals missed.

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