It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft and sloppy as an ink sac inside a rock that is 150 million years old 
Dr Phil Wilby
It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft and sloppy as an ink sac inside a rock that is 150 million years old
thanks BGHater.
some background:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5003383.ece
two UK news stories about this:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6800939.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8208838.stm
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Thanks BGHater.The squid came from a site near Christian Malford in Wiltshire that is reknowned for producing extremely well-preserved fossils, but this is believed to the first time squid ink has been reconstituted. To mark the occasion the scientists used the squid's own ink to draw a picture of it and wrote the specimen's Latin name, Belemnotheutis antiquus. Before it could be used, the pitch-black ink had to be returned to liquid form with a solution of ammonia. -- Simon de BruxellesTo all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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