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Palaeontology is unlike other sciences because its evidence is eroding away: dig the fossils up now, and we have forever to study them.

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  1. Dave Hone

    Palaeontologist and reader in zoology at Queen Mary University of London

    But fossils are in places that erode, and if we don't dig them up, they're gone. So we should dig all the fossils up now, and then we've got forever to study them.

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