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    Research on the fossil record of mammals in Mexico suggests that the geographic region acted as a biodiversity “holding pen” for 10 million years, buffering the pace of both northward and southward movements of mammal species leading up to the Great American Biotic Interchange.
    A three-dimensional rendering shows the land bridge connection between North and South America. Research on the fossil record of mammals in Mexico suggests that the geographic region acted as a biodiversity “holding pen” for 10 million years, buffering the pace of both northward and southward movements of mammal species leading up to the Great American Biotic Interchange. Illustration: C. Bickel and V. Penney/Science. Data: NASA Blue Marble Imagery, August 2026; B. Tozer, D. T. Sandwell, W. H. F. Smith, C. Olson, J. R. Beale, P. Wessel, Global bathymetry and topography at 15 arc sec: SRTM15+ (2019), distributed by OpenTopography, https://doi.org/10.5069/G92R3PT9, accessed 24 June 2026
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    Museum curators faced with cleaning animal skeletons for display may soon turn to an unusual new tool: flesh-eating beetle larvae known as “superworms.” These superworms can clean up an animal carcass in a matter of hours or days while keeping the bones intact, researchers
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