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A Recently Discovered Fossilized Jaw of a Carnivore is Seen at Smithsonian Research Institute
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PANAMA: July 21, 2008


A recently discovered fossilized jaw of a carnivore is seen at Smithsonian Research Institute in Panama City, released to Reuters.


Engineers digging to widen the Panama canal have uncovered more than 500 fossils including teeth and bones of rodents, horses, crocodiles and turtles that lived before a land bridge linked North and South America.



Story by Smithsonian Research Institute Handout


Photo by CAMILO MONTES


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