3-D Reconstruction of a 10-Million-Year-Old Sea Urchin (VIDEO)
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A sophisticated imaging technique has allowed scientists from the University of Bristol, UK to virtually peer inside a 10-million-year-old sea urchin fossil. Their results show that the fossil was riddled with borings made by shelled invertebrates called bivalves.
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Dr Imran Rahman, University of Bristol, UK
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Video is for single use only to illustrate stories on the paper 'Miocene Clypeaster from Valencia (E Spain): Insights into the taphonomy and ichnology of bioeroded echinoids using X-ray micro-tomography' by Rahman et al in <em>Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology</em>.
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