Paleontologists Discover “One-in-a-Million” Fossil with 450-Million-Year-Old Soft Tissue
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Paleontologists discover “one-in-a-million” fossil with 450-million-year-old soft tissue
Scientists have discovered a remarkably preserved 450-million-year-old fossil containing soft tissues from an ancient starfish relative, revealing unexpected details about marine life more than 200 million years before dinosaurs existed. Found in a museum collection, the extraordinarily rare specimen offers new clues about how Earth's earliest reef animals fed, survived, and evolved.
Two Canadian fossils of about 452 million years have preserved traces of walking feet, structures that help to understand the feeding of crinoides.
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma have identified soft tissues preserved in a fossil of more than 450 million years. The specimen represents the oldest record with this level of conservation among the crinoides, marine animals related to the stars of the sea. The finding is only the second case of this nature documented by science. The fossil belongs [...]
Found in a museum collection, exemplary guards structures used in feeding old animal related to the starfish
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