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450 Million-Year-Old 'Golden' Fossil Reveals a Prize Arthropod Ancestor


Most of the fossils that we find in Earth's crust are preserved in sedimentary rock, where layers of mineral cover an organism and, over eons, harden into stone, dead beastie impression and all.

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