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Science 25 August 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5483, p. 1273
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5483.1273a

News of the Week

PALEONTOLOGY:
Team Rejects Claim of Early Indian Fossils

Pallava Bagla

NEW DELHI--A team of Indian paleontologists has failed to find evidence to support a 1998 paper that cast doubt on the earliest claimed dates for the origin of animals. The discovery, if true, would also have made the Vindhyan Mountains, where the fossils were found, much younger than previously thought.

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