Paleontology (IMAGE)

Virginia Tech

Paleontology

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Michelle Stocker, a paleontologist at Virginia Tech, led a multi-institutional team that discovered a new species of reptile that predates dinosaurs, but had the classic dinosaur-look hundreds of millions of years ahead of its time.

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Jim Stroup/Virginia Tech

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