A 9-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Challenged What Scientists Thought They Knew About the Atacama Desert
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A 9-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Challenged What Scientists Thought They Knew About the Atacama Desert

Scientists were surprised to discover a fossilized tooth from a capybara that lived almost 9 million years ago in what is now northern Chile’s Atacama Desert. Chile’s Atacama Desert is an unlikely place to find traces of capybaras, the world’s largest living rodents, whose lives revolve around water and wetland plants. Yet a fossilized tooth [...]