Blast to the past: Explosives team helps researchers excavate prized dinosaur quarry

SALT LAKE CITY — Sometimes the delicate tools of dinosaur diggers just don’t cut it.

Ancient web-footed creature shows early step in evolution toward seals, sea lions, walruses

NEW YORK — Scientists say they’ve found a “missing link” in the early evolution of seals and walruses — the skeleton of a web-footed, otter-like creature that was evolving away from a life on land.

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