Spectacular Soft Tissue Fossils (IMAGE)

Lund University

Spectacular Soft Tissue Fossils

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This is a photo of spectacular soft tissue fossils. To the left, there is skin from a 55 million-year-old leatherback turtle (scale bar, 10 cm). In the centre, there are scales from an 85 million-year-old mosasaur (scale bar, 10 mm). To the right, there is a tail fin from a 196 million-year-old ichthyosaur (scale bar, 5 cm).

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Photographs by Bo Pagh Schultz, Johan Lindgren and Johan A. Gren, respectively

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