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Fossil find solves ancient fish mystery
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FOSSIL hunters have helped to solve the mystery of what the first
freshwater fish fed on after recovering a 410 million-year-old relic
in Aberdeenshire.
Experts at the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) have found what
they say are "exquisitely preserved fossil animals of global
importance" in the world-renowned Rhynie Chert deposits near the
village of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire.
The new fossil, resembling daphnia, modern-day water fleas, is a
small freshwater crustacean which swims upright by pulsating its
feathery antennae. It comes from the geological time period when fish
first began to ...
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