Rotten experiments help to create picture of our early ancestors
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 16:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
An innovative experiment that involved studying rotting fish has helped to create a clearer picture of what our early ancestors would have looked like. The scientists wanted to examine the decaying process in order to understand the decomposition of soft-body parts in fish. This in turn will help them reconstruct an image of creatures that existed 500 million years ago.