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re: More fossil news

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2003/dec/fleafossil/co300.jpg


Heard about it yesterday during All Things Considered.

The truly fascinating thing is how they took extremely thin sections through the fossil; genuine tomography, only computer-aided to reconstruct the three-dimensional images.

As for the fortuitous ability to determine its gender (labelled "co" in the diagram) - need anything further be said to deflate the vicarious chest-beating than "soft body parts"?

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