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More Than 2,000 Volunteers Are Excavating a 240-Million-Year-Old Monster

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More than 2,000 volunteers at Warsaw's Copernicus Science Centre are excavating a 1,300-kilogram Mastodonsaurus skeleton—the largest ever found—discovered in southern Poland in 2023, revealing new information about the 240-million-year-old amphibian's body structure.

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