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minus-squareMaroon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 days agoI thought soft-tissue didn’t fossilise. Cephalopods don’t have skeletons, then what exactly is getting fossilised here?
minus-squareKingGimpicus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 days agoHappened all the time. It just depends on the environment. Check out basically anything on the “Tully monster” if you want to know more. Tully monsters are actually even older than OPs fossil and we have no idea where they came from or where they went, from an evolutionary perspective.
minus-squareOwl@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoI know those guys and know what happened to them They were my creations in Spore and went extinct after trying to sing their way into the heart of some purple, venomous, bipedal creature
I thought soft-tissue didn’t fossilise. Cephalopods don’t have skeletons, then what exactly is getting fossilised here?
Happened all the time. It just depends on the environment. Check out basically anything on the “Tully monster” if you want to know more.
Tully monsters are actually even older than OPs fossil and we have no idea where they came from or where they went, from an evolutionary perspective.
I know those guys and know what happened to them
They were my creations in Spore and went extinct after trying to sing their way into the heart of some purple, venomous, bipedal creature