Claire. Posted October 25, 2016 #1 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Fossil in a Fossil in a Fossil There are so many questions to ask about prehistoric creatures. How a species evolved, why they went extinct, what they looked like in life, what they sounded like... not to mention who ate whom. Look at paleoart and it's clear that we're often obsessed by the details of what was on the menu of long gone species. This isn't as easy to work out as you might think. It's often possible to narrow down the range of what an animal ate based on its anatomy and what else was alive at the time, but, more often than not, we lack the bite marks, gut contents, and fossil feces to give us the specifics we yearn to know. That's what makes a fossil from the 48 million year old strata of Germany an exceptional insight into food webs long gone. Read more: Scientific American 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted October 25, 2016 #2 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Thanks, Clair, good find. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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