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A chance discovery in Mexico leads Cornell scientist to rewrite fossil history of shell-breaking crabWhile waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary history of crabs and the shelled mollusks upon which they preyed.In a museum display case he recognized a 67- to 69-million-year-old fossil from the Late Cretaceous period of a big crab with...