Dusting for prints from a fossil fish to understand evolutionary change

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 10:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

In 370 million-year-old red sandstone deposits in a highway roadcut, scientists have discovered a new species of armored fish in north central Pennsylvania. Studying and describing this fish's anatomy, they took advantage of a technique that may look like it was stolen from crime scene investigators.

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