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A Geologist Thought She’d Found a Bone. It Was a Tooth From a Prehistoric Rodent of Unusual Size

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In 2004, geologist Pannipa Tian noticed something unusually cream-colored standing out from the dark veins of coal marbled through Bang Mark Pit, a coal mine in southern Thailand’s Krabi province. Initially, Tian “thought it was a bone,” as she told Agence France-Presse last Thursday. It was …

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  1. A Geologist Thought She’d Found a Bone. It Was a Tooth From a Prehistoric Rodent of Unusual Sizegizmodo.com