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This week in the journal Nature Communications, scientists report a way to use fossilized shark teeth to figure out where different shark species, including megalodon, stood in the web of life. And last week in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists announced that they’ve successfully sequenced the first genome of a Pompeiian citizen.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10899-1
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/953594
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4472748/

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