SciKu: A Rare Internet Fossil in the Making

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

By | Published Mar 04, 2009 3:53 AM

SciKu: A Rare Internet Fossil in the Making
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

Read the full article too.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3tz7b7/
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