In 1924, a boy was born in China who would transform the Michigan iron industry and discover what was, at the time, considered the oldest macroscopic fossil ever. This is the story of TsuMing Han and Grypania.

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Want to learn more? Here are the key sources I used for researching this video:
General history:
https://www.asianstudies.org/publicat...
https://departments.kings.edu/history...
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war...
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/educati...
https://www.ishpeminghistory.org/ishp...

TsuMing Han:
"TsuMing Han: Man of Two Different Worlds" by Dr. Russell M. Magnaghi and James F. Shefchik
https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/obje...
https://northerntradition.wordpress.c...
https://nmu.lyrasistechnology.org/rep...
https://archives.nmu.edu/CUPS%20Trans...
https://archives.nmu.edu/CUPS%20Trans...
https://northerntradition.wordpress.c...

Grypania:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
http://complexityexplorer.s3.amazonaw...
https://gustavus.edu/geology/nobel_di...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewc...
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/ful...

Thumbnail photo credit: James St. John, https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeol...