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Seemingly frozen mid-hop, this fossil of a juvenile Leptictidium was unearthed in Germany's Messel Pit in September 2008. The animal, whose scientific name means "graceful weasel," was a small, carnivorous mammal with a long nose similar to that of an elephant shrew, researchers say.

 

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