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Archaeologists Discover A New Species Of Ancient Cynodont! – Dual Dove

Fossilized Jaw remains of a rat-like specimen discovered at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona last year by a Virginia Tech College of Science Ph.D….

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Fossilized Jaw remains of a rat-like specimen discovered at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona last year by a Virginia Tech College of Science Ph.D. c candidate turned out as the remains of a recently discovered 220-million-year-old species of cynodont, a stem-mammal, known precursor of current-day mammals.
The discovery of the new species, Kataigidodon venetus, was recently documented in the journal Biology Letters by primary author Ben Kligman, a doctoral student of the Department of…

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