Your Weekly Attenborough: Cascolus ravitis

The one with a clever name.

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By Nathaniel Scharping
Apr 7, 2018 2:17 AMFeb 11, 2020 9:02 PM
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Cascolus ravitis. (Credit: Siveter et al.)

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Let's think about what a fossil really is. A creature turned to rock, right? For the lucky few that get immortalized (or nearly) by geology and chemistry, hard tissues slip away as minerals take their place, molecule by molecule.

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