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Scientists Found a 520-Million-Year-Old Miracle: a Fossil With Brains and Guts Intact (www.popularmechanics.com)

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[-] protist@mander.xyz 68 points 4 months ago

Here's a much better source for this than Popular Mechanics.

[-] cashmaggot@piefed.social 25 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] jeffreyosborne@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Could you maybe edit the original post to include this better source?

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 16 points 4 months ago

Oddly enough, that source doesn't imply soft tissues were preserved. They can tell some things about its 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.