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Published online 20 May 2009 | Nature 459, 307 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459307a
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Elements reveal fossils' origins
Chemical fingerprint could foil poachers.
Researchers are closing in on a way to 'fingerprint' fossils to match them to their precise geological origins.
Federal land managers and scientists have long dreamed of finding a way to link a potentially stolen fossil to a specific site, and thus subvert poachers who take fossils from public land.
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