He came across the jawbone of a 4.5 million-year-old marsupial.
他偶然发现了一个450万年前的有袋动物的颌骨。
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This 700-million-year-old formation gives few clues to the origins of modern animals, however, because paleontologists believe it represents an evolutionary experiment that failed.
Quartz is quartz—a silicon ion surrounded by four oxygen ions—there's no difference at all between two-million-year-old Pleistocene quartz and Cambrian quartz created over 500 million years ago.