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    Digging Up Panama's Past

    The Panama Canal is being expanded to accommodate larger ships carrying bigger loads. The construction has exposed a trove of fossils, revealing a wide array of creatures that lived at the southern end of North America 20 million years ago.

    ByAri DanielNOVA

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