Thursday, December 6, 2018

130 MILLION YEARS OR MAYBE A LOT LESS

This news came across the wires today:
Blubber, skin preserved in 180M-year-old ichthyosaur fossil
Researchers have found blubber and skin preserved inside the fossil of an ichthyosaur that dates back about 180 million years. The findings, published in Nature, suggest that the marine reptile was warm-blooded and offer hints about its camouflage pattern.

There is no way blubber and skin can be preserved more that a few thousand years at best, I would be ashamed to publish such a story!

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