specimen

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"When I found the specimen back in 2015 on the beach in Devon, I had no idea what it was because there was so little of it exposed," added Dr. Rob Coram.

From Science Daily

The Darwin specimen is especially notable because it is roughly 15 million years older than other known cardabiodontids and had already reached the extremely large size typical of the group.

From Science Daily

Hitherto, no specimen of anthropoid primates had been discovered in America.”

From Scientific American

Well-preserved specimens of ancient soft-bodied organisms are rare in the fossil record, but researchers have identified a trove in northern Illinois’s 310-million-year-old Mazon Creek deposit, they reported on 8 March in Papers in Paleontology.

From Science Magazine

Trinity is the first such specimen to go to auction in Europe.

From Washington Times