Palaeontology: The new mother lode

Palaeontologists in Argentina are exploring a trove of fossils that is rewriting evolutionary history. Rex Dalton reports.

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Dalton, R. Palaeontology: The new mother lode. Nature 455, 153–155 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455153a