Scientists Found a 520-Million-Year-Old Miracle: a Fossil With Brains and Guts Intact
Scientists Found a 520-Million-Year-Old Miracle: a Fossil With Brains and Guts Intact
It’s an unprecedented look into prehistoric anatomy.
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Here's a much better source for this than Popular Mechanics.
Ty for this by the by =) I see it's teeny-tiny, and that it's not so much that the soft tissue was found, but that the outline of its internal organs were left on record from lack of compression. I'm not sure how that happened, let alone how someone found such a small thing.
Could you maybe edit the original post to include this better source?
Oddly enough, that source doesn't imply soft tissues were preserved. They can tell some things about it's brain and guts based on outlines left behind. And also from what they know of other arthropod fossils from the same era - undercutting the uniqueness.
This one is special because it isn't smushed flat like most fossils in this deposit.
Yes, the title is complete BS. The half life of DNA alone is ~500 years.
Hey thanks. Didn't notice that article about this. It's much better