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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.

Missing Link Found Ida, The 47 Million Year Old Fossil

Stewart Ramsey May 21, 2009.

Video: SkyNews

Video of the newly discovered primate fossil said to be a “missing link” of early primates.

Jurassic sea monster surfaces in Norway

Ian Sample March 16, 2009.

Guardian.co.uk

The giant meat-eating reptile, known as a pliosaur, had a bite four times as powerful as T. rex. The second creature, on the other hand, may be the least scary dinosaur ever discovered