• Question: what is the coolest fossil you have studied?

    Asked by robynnconway to Duncan on 15 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Duncan Murdock answered on 15 Mar 2010:


      While doing my masters I got to work on some very rare fossils of some of the earliest fish, eel-like animals called conodonts. They had no bones, except their teeth. The cool thing about the fossils I worked on is that they are preserved with all their teeth in the right place, and even with remains of their eyes, and there’s only a few tens of these fossils in the world.

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