Conodont Puzzle (IMAGE)

University of Leicester

Conodont Puzzle

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The palaeontologists' puzzle -- each of these conodont teeth is less than a millimeter long. Working out how the different shapes fitted together, and which were parts of the same skeleton is a complex problem.

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