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5-million-year-old deer fossils link modern wildlife to ancient North American forests

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Dentition of Eocoileus gentryorum from the Gray Fossil Site compared to a sample of fossil and extant cervids. Credit: Palaeontologia Electronica (2025). DOI: 10.26879/1560 Researchers at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum have discovered something surprisingly familiar among the site’s exotic ancient tapirs and rhinos: the first fossil deer, representing one of the earliest records of the deer family in North America. The newly described fossils o…
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Geology Page broke the news in on Tuesday, September 16, 2025.
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