it’s a worm larva btw
Here’s a much better source for this than Popular Mechanics.
Oddly enough, that source doesn’t imply soft tissues were preserved. They can tell some things about its brain and guts based on outlines left behind. And also from what they know of other arthropod fossils from the same era - undercutting the uniqueness.
This one is special because it isn’t smushed flat like most fossils in this deposit.
Yes, the title is complete BS. The half life of DNA alone is ~500 years.
Hey thanks. Didn’t notice that article about this. It’s much better
Intact butts you say?
well, it sure wasn’t a republican
Just last month I was thinking about asking somewhere if there was any chance we could ever find more than the usual stuff or if there would be no way for a perfect preservation to happen naturally. Guess I have my answer now.
Name it after Joe Biden.
Why? I don’t get it.
He’s also a fossil with brains and guts intact.
Is that a joke?
Yes
That isn’t the criteria we use to name newly discovered species.
But you know what IS funny?
Joe Biden isn’t running for a second presidential term.
Yet you weirdos are so obsessed that you just can’t let him go. You wish he was still running. Because now y’all are about to get beat up by a girl.
I’m a Green Party member from Germany.
And the joke just wouldn’t have fit Trump, his brains and guts aren’t intact.The joke didn’t work regardless.
