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...what would look to most people like generic bone. "The finest specimen of a marsupial lion jaw that's ever been found," he declares. It seems to have belonged, he explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this most ferocious marsupial - a link between the cat-sized Priscileo and the leopard-sized Wakaleo - whose lineage coexisted with Aborigines before dying out 35,000 years ago. "Nearly 30 years of digging," says Lizard Cannell, the team's explosives expert, "and we're still finding firsts. All the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of the Bones | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

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