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Paleontologists Spent 20 Years Dating Thousands of Fossils – Here’s What They Found
AI KEY TAKEAWAYS (TL;DR)
- How quickly sediment accumulates on the seafloor appears to be the key factor determining whether fossils from different time periods become mixed together
- A single layer of marine fossils can look like a snapshot of one ancient community even when the organisms preserved side by side actually lived hundreds or thousands of years apart
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How quickly sediment accumulates on the seafloor appears to be the key factor determining whether fossils from different time periods become mixed together. A single layer of marine fossils can look like a snapshot of one ancient community even when the organisms preserved side by side actually lived hundreds or thousands of years apart. For [...]
