The Fossil Fireworm <em>Rollinschaeta myoplena</em> (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

The Fossil Fireworm <em>Rollinschaeta myoplena</em>

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The fossil fireworm <em>Rollinschaeta myoplena</em> is from the Cretaceous of Lebanon, preserving muscle tissue, which fluoresce white under UV light. Researchers from the University of Bristol, UK, who discovered this muscly creature named it after the frontman of punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins.

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Luke Parry/University of Bristol

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Images is for single use only to illustrate articles on the BMC Evolutionary Biology paper 'A new fireworm (Amphinomidae) from the Cretaceous of Lebanon identified from three-dimensionally preserved myoanatomy' by Parry et al and is not be archived.

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