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  • Fossil Meat Found in 380-Million-Year-Old Fish

    02/12/2007 3:05:44 PM PST · by LibWhacker · 142 replies · 2,466+ views
    National Geographic News ^ | 2/12/07 | Sean Markey
    Australian scientists say they have found morsels of fossilized muscle—the oldest vertebrate tissue ever known—in the remains of two fish that lived 380 to 384 million years ago. Unearthed in western Australia 20 years ago, the specimens belong to two species of an extinct group of primitive, armored fish known as placoderms (map of Australia). The fish's remarkably well-preserved soft tissues include bundles of muscle cells, blood vessels, and nerve cells. They were found during recent electron microscope scans, the research team reported last week in the British journal Biology Letters. Fossilized muscle is quite rare, and the new finds...