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Jurassic Squid

  • 20-08-2009 11:21am
    #1
    Zadkiel
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    Sorry if this has been done!
    A new Species of Jurassic Squid has been found, amazingly the Palaeontologists were able to write using an extraction from the fossilised sample of Ink. 150 million year old species of Squid. I didn't think it would have been possible to have soft tissues fossilised, but I'm pretty new to this, fascinating nonetheless.:D

    _46228866_squid_comp282.jpg

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8208838.stm


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  • #2
    Galvasean
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    That certainly is an amazing find. Soft tissues in general are not that uncommon in fossils, but teh ink sack of a squid is really taking it to the extreme.
    There was an octopus find recently that was incredibly well preserved, but this new squid puts even that to shame!


  • #3
    Zadkiel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Zadkiel


    Galvasean wrote: »
    There was an octopus find recently that was incredibly well preserved, but this new squid puts even that to shame!

    I remember reading that thread, pretty incredible. It gives me hope that they may yet find some fossils ( even partial ) of some of the earlier shark species.


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