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Find a way to guarantee that in ten thousand years your fossilized bones will be prodded at by lab-coat-wearing beings who are taller and have better teeth and prehensile tails. There are all ...
How to Fossilize… Yourself By Jamie Condliffe Published January 7, 2014 | Comments ( 0 ) 𝕏 ...
How to Fossilize a Brain A new study shows that brains can can fossilize like bones Danny Lewis November 9, 2015 ...
What types of animal remains do you think you could find at La Brea Tar Pits? Based on your chicken and teratorn observations, you probably guessed that only the “hard parts” (i.e., the bones) of a ...
Ancient brains turn paleontology on its head Strongest evidence yet that it's possible for brains to fossilize and, in fact, a set of 520-million-year-old arthropod brains have done just that Date ...
Most of what we know about ancient extinct animals comes from their bones, since soft tissues don’t usually fossilize well. But now, scientists have discovered the oldest preserved vertebrate ...
That might be why proof of T. rex 's eating habits has been so difficult to pin down, and why scientists are somewhat in the dark when it comes to definitively pegging T. rex as a strict predator ...
Scientists Ruin Delicious Seabass to Probe Why Some Organs Don’t Fossilize Watching fish rot for more than two months disproves a long-standing fossilization theory ...
Most fossils are basically mineralized body parts: shells, bones, and teeth. But softer tissues are far more likely to decay than fossilize, including chitinous exoskeletons, skin, and feathers.
How to Fossilize a Brain A new study shows that brains can can fossilize like bones Danny Lewis November 9, 2015 ...