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Meet an ancestor.

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04-15-2011 5:48 PM

Well, an ancestor-relative, to be more precise.
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I know that a few of these "jaw-bones to ear-bones" fossils have been found before, but this seems a particularly good illustrative transitional. It has a feature called "Meckel's cartilage" which we modern mammals still have as embryos, but which disappears as we mature.
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