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Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:55:27 +0000

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Animals

Science & Nature

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insects

National Museum of Natural History

prehistoric

rocks & minerals

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Paleoecologist Conrad Labandeira travels to the Karoo Basin of South Africa to find leaf fossils from the Permian-Triassic boundary, the time of the Earth's largest mass extinction. What can bug bites on leaves tell us about our own uncertain times?

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