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Scientists amazingly uncover a 520 million year-old fossil with its brain and guts intact: ‘Almost perfect preservation’


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Fossils usually leave us with bones turned to stone, the hard remains of creatures long gone. But every so often, nature offers something far rarer — a glimpse of soft tissue that survived for millions of years. Researchers examining a 520-million-year-old arthropod larva were stunned to find not just an outline of the creature, but…