1st fossilised prehistoric animal heart found

[Still Waters]

Palaeontologists and the famous Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz were once in search of the same thing: a heart. But in our case, it was the search for a fossilised heart. And now we've found one.

A new discovery, announced today in the journal eLife, shows the perfectly preserved 3D fossilised heart in a 113-119 million-year-old fish from Brazil called Rhacolepis.

This is the first definite fossilised heart found in any prehistoric animal.

http://phys.org/news...ric-animal.html

[BeastieRunner]

That's pretty cool.

[Rob Awesome]

I expected an ex-wife/girlfriend joke in here somewhere

[paperdyer]

No wife/ex-girlfriend joke needed as the fossil wasn't heartless.

[Infernal Gnu]

There's GOT to be some sort of song lyric here:

"Baby, you can't break my fossilized heart" something like that.

[Ozfactor]

a heart of stone

[Galactic Goatman]

A presumed heart was found in a small ornithopod dinosaur, but others say it's just a stain or a liver.

[Geeky Girl]

I think it could be real.