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Ancient Protein Analysis Sheds New Light on Rhino Family Tree


Paleontologists have retrieved ancient enamel protein sequences from a fossilized tooth of Epiaceratherium sp., a rhinocerotid that lived in Canada’s High Arctic between 24 and 21 million years ago (Early Miocene).

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