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A 6-year-old dog named Buddy was pulled alive on Thursday, after spending eight agonizing days trapped beneath his collapsed ...

A tiny tooth can disappear between your fingertips without much effort. Yet some of the earliest clues to our own evolutionary story come from fossils no larger than that.