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Tiny fossils show brittle stars gathered around a dead whale 9.5 million years ago

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Tiny skeletal plates recovered beside fossil whale bones in southern Denmark offer a rare glimpse of life around a whale carcass approximately 9.5 million years ago. Researchers have identified a new species of brittle star…

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