Articles for tag: Arctic fossils, Arctic paleontology, Earth History, prehistoric mammals

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Forgotten Arctic Fossils May Hold Clues to Mammalian Origins

Suhail Ahmed

Some of the most important clues to how mammals took hold on Earth aren’t in blockbuster skeletons – they’re in thumbnail-sized teeth tucked away in Arctic collections. In field camps perched above icy rivers and in museum drawers that sat untouched for decades, researchers are finding a different kind of headline fossil: tiny, stubborn, and ...