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HTTP:: Experts Find 150 Million Year Old Squid Ink
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While digging for fossils in the small village of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, in the United Kingdom, archaeologists stumbled upon the preserved remains of a squid, estimated to have lived some 150 million years ago. Inside it, much to their amazement, experts discovered ink. The substance was so well maintained, that its finders could eventually dip their pens inside it and use it for writing, the BBC News informs. The amazing site has been excavated almost continuously since Victorian times. Hundreds of excellently preserved fossils were discovered there, some of which still had their soft tissues. This is an extremely rare event for archaeologists, because being trapped in solid rock for millions of years generally tends to strip everything from the bones, and only leaves impressions in the material. The sack of ink belonging to the squid was, for example, found only when archaeologists cracked open a rock. Inside, they found the artifact, measuring about one inch in length,!
perfectly preserved. Because of the relative similarity between this ancient squid and its modern relatives, the researchers were able to use its ink to write its name and draw its diagram on a piece of paper. “We think that these creatures were swimming around during the Jurassic period and were turned to stone soon after death. I...
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