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Published online 19 March 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030317-4
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Tusked fossil sparks resurrection row
Australian paleontologists claim museum reptile weathered mass extinction.
With the body of a hippo, the beak of a turtle and the tusks of a walrus, the long-lost dicynodont would seem hard to mistake. But a fossil that could be an example of the creature is dividing palaeontolgists.
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