Paleontologists have confidently painted a date of 230 million years ago as a reference point for dinosaurs for years, but Princeton and Yale have just consigned that consensus to the dustbin of history.
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The paleontology has always been based on a golden rule: without a fossil, a species does not exist. However, this absolute certainty has just broken out. By crossing huge anatomical databases with state-of-the-art statistical algorithms, American researchers have virtually gone back in time. Their results reveal a dizzying anomaly in the genealogical tree [...]
Paleontologists have confidently painted a date of 230 million years ago as a reference point for dinosaurs for years, but Princeton and Yale have just consigned that consensus to the dustbin of history.