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Fabiany Herrera, a graduate researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History, holds a rock containing fossils from a 58-million-year-old Neotropical rainforest earlier this year at the Cerrejón coal mine in northern Colombia.

(Photo provided by: Fabiany Herrera/ Florida Museum of Natural History)
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