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Reptiles Eat With the Bones Humans Hear With, Fossil Proves

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD April 18, 2011.

Print: New York Times

An elusive evolutionary “missing link” bridging the bones of the mammalian middle ear with the reptilian jawbones is discovered in a fossil of an early squirrel-like mammal.