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280-Million-Year-Old Fossil Provides Earliest Direct Evidence of Land Predators Attacking Herbivores


Paleontologists at the University of Toronto Mississauga have found dozens of tooth marks on the fossilized bones of three juveniles of Diadectes, one of the earliest large plant-eating vertebrates to walk on land.

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