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Contact: Steve Koppes
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University of Chicago
Caption: An outcrop of 20-million-year-old fossil shells on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Paleontologists have published a detailed, global study of clam preservation intended to determine what's missing from the fossil record and why.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Susan Kidwell
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