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The Missing Notebooks That Solved a 25-Year-Old Paleontology Mystery

1 June 2026 at 16:17
55 Million Year Old Tarpon Fossil FishField notebooks from the late Richard Köhler allowed researchers to finally catalog a remarkable fossil tarpon from Aotearoa New Zealand. Recently disclosed notebooks from a late paleontologist supplied the missing details researchers needed to complete their study of a “remarkable” fossil found nearly 30 years ago. Dr. Richard Köhler discovered the fossil fish in 1999 [...]
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