Tag: sea life
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462 million-year-old fossilized eyes and brains uncovered in ‘secret’ Welsh fossil site
Live Science has an article about the exciting discovery of a new fossil site in Wales, UK. The locality is being called “Castle Bank” and could rank among the world’s most important. It dates to the Ordovician Period about 462 million years ago. “Castle Bank” preserves a variety of soft bodied animals with exquisite preservation,…
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‘Golden’ fossils reveal origins of exceptional preservation
Phys.org has an article about “golden” fossils. Germany’s Posidonia shale, which dates to the early Jurassic, was thought to contain pyritized fossils of sea life. New research by a team at the University of Texas at Austin have found that the golden shine actually comes from phosphate minerals with yellow calcite. Additionally, the chemical composition…
