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Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

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Under polarized light, an image of the fibrolamellar bone at the outer surface of the femur of the youngest specimens sampled in this study. The vascular spaces (porous, purple spaces) and bone tissue (pink) are haphazardly organized suggesting rapid overall growth of the animal.

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Credit: M. Whitney

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