It is just black paint. The fossil is partly a forgery. Piero Leonardi first described the 280-million-year-old Permian fossil in 1959. He believed that the dark outline indicated soft tissue.

The fossils were thought to be nummulites, but afterwards they were shown to be crinoid ossicles of uncertain age. Fifty years later, E. J. Garwood found that the high range bordering Sikkim to ...

There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period ... published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. The fossil was collected in 1984 near Lake Kemp in Texas and kept ...

Amos The iconic arthropods of the Cambrian were the trilobites, which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had ... the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million years ago.

“But paleontologists have long suspected there were therapsids before the middle Permian — we just didn’t find their fossils yet. This fossil is the most promising candidate for an early ...

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