Name it after Joe Biden.
Why? I don’t get it.
He’s also a fossil with brains and guts intact.
Is that a joke?
Yes
That isn’t the criteria we use to name newly discovered species.
But you know what IS funny?
Joe Biden isn’t running for a second presidential term.
Yet you weirdos are so obsessed that you just can’t let him go. You wish he was still running.
I’m a Green Party member from Germany.
And the joke just wouldn’t have fit Trump, his brains and guts aren’t intact.The joke didn’t work regardless.
it’s a worm larva btw
well, it sure wasn’t a republican
Here’s a much better source for this than Popular Mechanics.
Oddly enough, that source doesn’t imply soft tissues were preserved. They can tell some things about its brain and guts based on outlines left behind. And also from what they know of other arthropod fossils from the same era - undercutting the uniqueness.
This one is special because it isn’t smushed flat like most fossils in this deposit.
Yes, the title is complete BS. The half life of DNA alone is ~500 years.
Hey thanks. Didn’t notice that article about this. It’s much better
Ty for this by the by =) I see it’s teeny-tiny, and that it’s not so much that the soft tissue was found, but that the outline of its internal organs were left on record from lack of compression. I’m not sure how that happened, let alone how someone found such a small thing.
Could you maybe edit the original post to include this better source?
Just last month I was thinking about asking somewhere if there was any chance we could ever find more than the usual stuff or if there would be no way for a perfect preservation to happen naturally. Guess I have my answer now.
Someone can probably fill me in here. There are always so many wondrous finds coming out of China. I think I once heard why, but I can’t exactly remember why. Is it because of the exposed striations in sandstone faults x difficulty to develop in the desert x lack of humidity x overall mass of area that has given rise to this? I am pretty sure someone can give me a clearer picture here somewhere between a paleontologist or a geologist.
A lot of wondrous finds in China are because they made it the fuck up.
It’s a meme in science circles to double check studies that come from China.
