Field Museum Mammalogist Examines Fossil (IMAGE)
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Lawrence Heaney, curator of mammals at the Field Museum and a co-author of the study published in the Journal of Mammalogy, holds the fossil humerus of B. cebuensis, a newly discovered species of dwarf water buffalo, and a humerus of the domestic water buffalo. The extinct species was described based on a fossilized partial skeleton consisting of two teeth, two vertebrae, two upper arm bones, a foot bone and two hoof bones.
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Photo by John Weinstein, Courtesy of The Field Museum (GN90881_32d)
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