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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

UK scientists find 'lost' Darwin fossils

No, it's not Darwin's bones, it's fossils he and his friends discovered.

Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a "gloomy corner" of the massive, drafty British Geological Survey.

Using a flashlight to peer into the drawers and hold up a slide, Falcon-Lang saw one of the first specimens he had picked up was labeled 'C. Darwin Esq."

You never can tell what's in those dusty corners.

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