A research group from Hokkaido University Graduate School and other institutions published their findings in an international academic journal in April, stating that they had identified the diet of a type of marine mammal, a dune cow, excavated from a geological layer in Hokkaido dating back approximately 10 million years. This is the first time in the world that dietary information has been deciphered from lipids preserved in bone fossils. This…
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A research group from Hokkaido University Graduate School and other institutions published their findings in an international academic journal in April, stating that they had identified the diet of a type of marine mammal, a dune cow, excavated from a geological layer in Hokkaido dating back approximately 10 million years. This is the first time in the world that dietary information has been deciphered from lipids preserved in bone fossils. This…