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November 26, 2010

Listen to principal investigator Felisa Smith describe the discovery.

Principal investigator Felisa Smith from the University of New Mexico describes the discovery. She discusses her research in its goals; she describes how the demise of dinosaurs paved the way for mammals to get bigger; and she outlines the results of the data.

Credit: Videotaped by Steve Carr, University of New Mexico Edited by Lisa-Joy Zgorski, Steve McNally, and John Wassel, NSF


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