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WELLINGTON Cheap Alexander Wennberg Jersey , Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- A New Zealand paleontologist has identified the oldest known fur seal fossil, bridging a 5- million-year gap in fur seal and sea lion evolution, the University of Otago said on Thursday.


Otago researcher Robert Boessenecker and colleague Morgan Churchill, from the University of Wyoming, had named this new genus and species of fur seal Eotaria crypta. The genus name Eotaria means "dawn sea lion."