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🔴 📚 **Mystery ‘hairy’ material used to make handcrafted medieval book covers finally revealed**

Vishwam Sankaran

_DNA analysis revealed that eight of the skins were from harbor, harp, and bearded seal species likely sourced from their populations in Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, and “perhaps Barents-White Sea region”._

🔗 independent.co.uk/news/science.

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