Museum collections indicate Central Europe was a global biodiversity hotspot 15 million years ago

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Jul 22, 2024, 9:27 am118 pts
The collections of natural history museums are unique archives of evolution. They allow us to look far into the geological past. Shells of marine snails are particularly common fossils and are well suited to reconstructing climate history and former marine distributions.

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