Paleontology is a field where history can be rewritten with each new discovery. In a basement in St. Paul, Minnesota, Michael Bahl is something of an amateur paleontologist. He reconstructs the skeletons of mammals that never quite existed. We sent Sarah Lemanczyk to his studio.
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