A well preserved brain has been found in a fossil fish in kansas.
Found inside an iniopterygian(Related to sharks) skull, it has been mineralized by phosphate-fixing microbes before decay could set in.
Researchers hope there may be other preserved organs in siniliar condition.
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Thursday, 12 March 2009
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