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By studying what the planet looked like millions of years ago, students may uncover new links to today's changing climate and declining biodiversity that will give us a better understanding about what is happening now. Once catalogued only on handwritten index cards, fossil records in the past decade have been making their way to the international Paleobiology Database. The massive free resource for researchers chronicles about 1.3 million "finds," which may contain several species. [Source: George Mason University]
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