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You find one, there has to be more," Lyson recalled thinking. And he thought back to some of his digs in South Africa. There, it wasn't about following bits of bone — easy to do at Corral Bluffs — but instead about cracking concretions, particular egg-shaped rocks.There amid the bluffs Lyson spotted
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one. He took his hammer to it. "And I could see the cross section of a mammal skull staring back at me," he said. "I was immediately yelling at Ian. 'I just found a skull! Get over here!' "And he and the volunteers came running over. We just had this moment where we were all just celebrating.
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