Photo: Dino Fossils Found on Remote South Pacific Island

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Jeffrey Stilwell (left) and Chris Consoli of Australia's Monash University hold a fossilized dinosaur toe bone, part of a cache of fossils the researchers found on a remote island 500 miles (860 kilometers) off the coast of New Zealand.

Photograph courtesy Monash University/Melissa Di Ciero

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