specimen
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Together, these specimens span roughly 50,000 years, from the Pleistocene to the present.
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Scientists at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum recently uncovered a mistake that dates back decades involving a poison frog specimen from Peru.
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Cardillo said he and his colleagues use generative AI to review specimens, but that they do so only as a second pair of eyes after already coming up with their own diagnoses.
Their findings suggest the specimen may not belong to any known human ancestor species and could represent an entirely new one.
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First, they compared multiple traits in these bones with those of both living species and fossil specimens.
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