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Oregon State University: Meet 'Mold Pigs,' New Group of Invertebrates From 30 Million Years Ago
October 09, 2019
CORVALLIS, Oregon, Oct. 9 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news:

Fossils preserved in Dominican amber reveal a new family, genus and species of microinvertebrate from the mid-Tertiary period, a discovery that shows unique lineages of the tiny creatures were living 30 million years ago.

The findings by George Poinar Jr. of the Oregon State University College of Science give a rare look at a heretofore unknown clade of invertebrates, al . . .

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