Australian site gives vivid window​ into 15 million year old life

                                                                                 
                                                                

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Recent discoveries in Austalia have yielded thousands of intricate and perfectly preserved fossils from a Miocene lake site in the desert. The spider above shows details of its breathing system. Other finds include a feather that shows its original coloration, a sawfly with dozens of pollen grains stuck to its head, and fish that reveal whose stomachs show the contents of their last meal. Click below, oto read the report in The Guardian.
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