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A 'trilobite Pompeii': Perfectly preserved fossils of ancient sea critters found buried in volcanic ash
The new trilobite fossils are Cambrian in age (around 509 million years old) and preserved as undistorted three-dimensional molds within fine volcanic ash, not unlike the human bodies entombed at ...
30,000-year-old vulture fossil with intact feathers created by volcanic eruptions
Discovered in Rome in 1889, the vulture fossil was found completely intact, with fine detailing on parts of its eyelids and ...
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Vesuvius Volcano Ash Cloud Cooked Roman Man's Brain Into Glass Fossil
A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by ... than a dozen feet of volcanic ash and pumice ...
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The first fossil thrips in Africa: this tiny insect pest met its end in a volcanic lake 90 million years ago
South Africa’s first and only Black palaeoentomologist, Sandiso Mnguni, who studies fossil insects ... into the palaeolake that was formed by the volcanic eruption or was transported there ...