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To: sarcasm; VadeRetro
"I was looking at a bowl of fossilized catfish. Someone in the middle of a meal abandoned this bowl, and it got fossilized."

I wonder what could cause a bowl of catfish to fossilize in tact, say around 4,000 to 5,000 years ago?

18 posted on 02/02/2004 7:51:56 AM PST by bondserv (Alignment is critical.)
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To: bondserv
I wonder what could cause a bowl of catfish to fossilize in tact, say around 4,000 to 5,000 years ago?

I was wondering that too. Am kind of curious as to what the current theory on fossilization says about the amount of time it takes to create a fossil.

21 posted on 02/02/2004 3:20:05 PM PST by yhwhsman ("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
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I was thinking the same thing, especially in what the article called a marshland?
22 posted on 02/02/2004 3:28:54 PM PST by Eva
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