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Paleontologists Discover New Species of Extinct Walrus


Paleontologists have identified a new species of the extinct genus Ontocetus from a nearly complete pair of fossilized jaws from the Early Pleistocene of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands and a fragmentary jaw from the Late Pliocene of Belgium.

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