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Monday, November 23, 2009 |
Monday, November 23, 2009 |
Photo: Indian Fossil Bed Being Ground Into CementBut some quarries in the war-torn Indian state are illicitly mining limestone deposits that hold 260-million-year-old fossils, including many that could shed light on how life evolved anew after a mass extinction event about 251 million years ago. Photograph by Fayaz Kabil/Reuters
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