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| Tango01 | 31 Oct 2019 8:55 p.m. PST |
…Kenya museum cabinet. "Paleontologists have discovered the remains of a new species of carnivore mammal in a drawer at the National Museums of Kenya. Fossils of a jaw, fragments of skull and pieces of the skeleton were unearthed in western Kenya between 1978 and 1980 by researchers looking for ancient primate remains. As the 22-million-year-old bones clearly did not come from apes, they were put in a cabinet and largely ignored until 2013 when Ohio University paleontologist Dr. Matthew Borths spotted them in a cabinet marked "hyenas" and realized they could be highly significant. Borths contacted Ohio University paleontologist Dr. Nancy Stevens and she told him she'd noticed the unusual specimen as well while doing research in Nairobi. They teamed up and returned to the Nairobi National Museum in 2017 to study and analyze the fossils…."
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