Professor Les Baillie, of Cardiff University's school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, said nature in Wales was a resource.

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The research was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and is published in the Nature journal.

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Zanno is the director of the Paleontology and Geology Research Laboratory at the Nature Research Center of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

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