Scientists thrive on collaboration — but human conflict can hinder research or prevent it. In Colombia, paleontologists wanted to return to the site where a dinosaur vertebra was found in the 1940s. But the Serranía del Perijá mountains were ground zero for decades of civil war, making research off-limits. Now, paleontologists have returned and confirmed the vertebra belonged to a...
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