Ancient geologic escape hatches mistaken for tube worms
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 12:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Tubeworms have been around for millions of years and the fossil record is rich with their distinctive imprints. But a discovery made by U of C scientists found that what previous researchers had labeled as tubeworms in a formation near Denver, Colorado, are actually 70 million-year-old escape hatches for methane.