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Studies of Fossils

16 June 2010
Biology

www.physorg.com/print195831471.html June 15th … reports on attempts to extract further information from fossilised creatures – the behaviour of ancient life forms. I don’t know if there is sleight of hand involved here but instead of using fossils as a means of classifying and cataloguing the diversity of life in the past scientists are looking at the possibility of discovering clues about behaviour from that frozen moment of death. Insects caught in amber is one example given.

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