Discovery Highlights Value of Museum Collections (IMAGE)
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This box contains the fossil remains of several Haitian cave-rails, Nesotrochis steganinos, collected in the 1980s by Charles Woods, then curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History. At that time, "nobody was thinking about ancient DNA," said ornithologist David Steadman.
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Jeff Gage/Florida Museum of Natural History
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