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A new dinosaur from South Africa offers clues to how giant plant-eating dinosaurs evolved

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Waterloo Farm, Late Devonian South African fossil site recognised as one of the most important geological sites on Earth

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Giant Early Devonian plants

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Exceptionally preserved Microgomphodonoligocynus specimens elucidate ecomorphologicaladaptations in derived therocephalians(Synapsida: Therapsida)

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