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Allie
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Posted 7 Months ago #1
Hi
Thought I would barge in and share this with you http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/ 8208838.stm
Isn't that an amazing find? Imagine being the palaeontologists who wrote with the ink!
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Posted 7 Months ago #2
I know! I actually read the article! It's amazing!!!
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Posted 7 Months ago #3
Thats exactly why I want to be a paleontologist I want to find stuff like that! Thats cool how the ink sack fossilized. Is that rare? Or do all of those fossil squid types have the ink sack in the middle of there fossilized bodies?
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Posted 7 Months ago #4
Actually, Tyler, that's pretty rare as the ink sack is mainly soft tissue and that decomposes pretty quickly, though on rare occasions soft tissue like the skin of Duck-billed dinosaurs like Edmontosaurus and "Leo" the Brachylophosaurus fossilizes, though without color, which to do that requires certain proteins to be preserved.

Now, the ink Itself preserved?! THAT is a First!!
Last Edit: 2009/08/22 10:27 By Raptor Lewis.
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