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Florida Museum of Natural History

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Scientists carbon-dated more than 7,500 marine fossils from ocean beds around the world and used that data to determine which environmental factors are most responsible for mixing together fossils from different time periods in the same stratum.

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Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace

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