GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: QOTD: First discovered more than 30 years ago

We can ditch (A) and (B) pretty quickly: "and" is followed by a phrase beginning with "that" -- and there's nothing earlier in the sentence that could possibly be parallel to the phrase beginning with "that."

(C) doesn't sound parallel, but it is. "Found" is just an adjective that modifies the animal, and so is "resembling." Sure, they don'tsound the same, but they're both adjectives, so we're all good here. Let's keep (C).

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