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Ancient altercations between musk turtles and alligator gar recorded in Florida's fossil record
- June 2, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida river. The fossils they left behind, discovered by paleontologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History, reveal the identity of the combatants and the outcome of their encounter.
Originally published at Phys.org