"One in a Million" Find: Soft Tissue Discovered in 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil
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University of Oklahoma paleontologists identified fossilized tube feet in Dendrocrinus simcoensis, a 450-million-year-old crinoid fossil—only the second ever documented instance of preserved soft tissue in crinoids and the oldest known example, revealing feeding structures normally erased from the fossil record.
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