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Fossils

Ophiacodons

The History of Air

Paleontologists are looking to the fossil record to decipher what the earth’s atmosphere was like hundreds of millions of years ago

Columbian mammoths were larger than mastodons. Both once roamed North America.

Mammoths and Mastodons: All American Monsters

A mammoth discovery in 1705 sparked a fossil craze and gave the young United States a symbol of national might

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