Posted on 12/09/2012 1:46:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
"This preservation is quite bizarre, but soft-bodied organisms cannot usually become fossilized unless they are rapidly entombed in a medium that prevents further decay," study researcher and paleobotanist Benjamin Bomfleur, of the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Kansas, told LiveScience.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
thanks BenLurkin.
ScienceShot: Cocoon Preserves Microbe for the Ages
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2966125/posts
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