• @Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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      401 year ago

      Unlikely for there to be bubbly bits. These are bugs, so we know their shape because their exoskeleton (which is what fossilizes) is their shape. Fish haven’t evolved yet

      • @leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
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        81 year ago

        These seem to be illustrations of Burgess Shale organisms, Burgess Shale being renowned for the excellent preservation of soft tissues in its fossils, so the bubbly bits were actually quite well preserved, if maybe a bit squished and deflated.

      • @galoisghost@aussie.zone
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        21 year ago

        Thanks. I looked it up.

        You saying these are bugs tickles my funny bone imagining a metre long anomalcaris scuttling out from under the fridge, like a scene from a Cronenberg movie.