The Nation - News from March 24, 1986
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Scientists probing the rocks of a mountain range in Antarctica have found 225-million-year-old fossils of reptiles and amphibians, which they say may broaden the range of time researchers believe the animals lived on the now-frozen continent. A team of scientists working along the transantarctic mountain range during the recently ended Antarctic summer found more than 350 vertebrate fossils, including bones belonging to four new species of amphibians and reptiles, the National Science Foundation announced in Washington.
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