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X-Ray Vision Brings New Life to a Fossil Flattened by Time
Paleontologists stumbled upon a unique discovery in 2008 while exploring an Arctic mountaintop in Svalbard, discovering a remarkably complete skeleton of an ichthyosaur, named Oda, dated 240 million years old. The ancient