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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

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Most museum collections drawers are filled with specimens of lizards, snakes, and mosasaurs that are isolated and fragmentary. Fossils like these aren't necessarily eye-catching, but this study finds that they still preserve reliable and important evolutionary information.

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Courtesy of Hank Woolley, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM).

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