The researchers, from the University of Washington and University of California Berkeley in the US and the Natural History Museum, re-examined a number of bones that were first collected from what is now Lake Malawi in southern Africa.

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The new species, Laonastes aenigmamus, is described in the recent issue of the journal Systematics and Biodiversity, by authors from WCS, The Natural History Museum in London, University of Vermont and WWF Thailand.

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A. has formed alliances with many companies and institutions, including the Boston Public Library, the American Museum of Natural History, and Johns Hopkins University.

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The Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas, for example, is one of six university museums throughout the Midwest now mounting a new exhibit: Explore Evolution.

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Expedition leader Jorn Harald Hurum, from the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum, said "The Monster" would have been big enough to chomp on a small car.

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He cites Harvard University's glass-flower collection at its Museum of Natural History as an inexhaustible cache of ideas, for form, content and sheer brazen originality.

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"Rising Up" will be at the High through Sept. 2, 2012, after which it will travel to the 80WSE Gallery at New York University, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American Culture and History in Washington, and four other museums.

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