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'Jurassic Pompeii' yields thousands of 'squiggly wiggly' fossils

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BBC News

Publication Date
2021-07-21

Palaeontologist Tim Ewin is standing in a quarry, recalling the calamity that's written in the rocks under his mud-caked boots. "They tried to protect themselves, adopting the stress position of pulling their arms in," he continues. "But it was all in vain; you can see where their arms got snagged open, right up to the crown. They were pushed into the sediment and buried alive."

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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57853537