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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Historic Fossil Find

"This is like a holy grail for paleontology," said Jørn Hurum, a scientist at the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum who arranged to buy the fossil from private collectors about two years ago. Hurum is co-author of a paper published today in the journal PLoS ONE detailing the finding. "This fossil will probably be pictured in all the text books for the next 100 years," he said.


Here's why.

Hmmm. I guess you have to be a paleontologist.

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