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Paleontologists Find Ancient Proteins in 18-Million-Year-Old Mammal Tooth Enamel


Paleontologists have discovered protein sequences within dense enamel tissues of ancient rhinocerotid and proboscidean fossils collected at sites of Buluk and Loperot in the Turkana Basin, Kenya.

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