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January 14, 2013

The World's Fossils Are Going Extinct

Dave Hone, Guardian


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The world has a finite number of Tyrannosaurs rexes. All that there will ever be have lived and long since died. And all of those that could have become fossilised have done so. What remains for palaeontologists is to find what of these are out there, but the number is constantly being reduced.

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