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In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight ...

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In a dry riverbed in northern Brazil, paleontologists kept finding the same strange bone. Each was about six inches long, curved, thick, and unmistakably twisted. At first, the fossilized jaw looked ...

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