SciKu: A Rare Internet Fossil in the Making

A new day, a new paleontological discovery, a new SciKu (and a video)

By Laura Allen
March 3, 2009
An ultra-high-resolution X-ray scan of a 300-million-year-old fossilized fish skull
An ultra-high-resolution X-ray scan of a 300-million-year-old fossilized fish skull
The orange blob at the center is (was) its brain.PNAS/Philippe Janvier (CNRS, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle)

We bet that SciKu, the delicate science poetry that belongs to everyone, will last and last. As did, apparently, a 300-million-year-old brain found inside a rock in northeast Kansas:

Fish brain turned to stone
Alas! Fossilization:
It's not just for bone

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