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3-D Fossils Found in Canada
smooth wombat writes "The BBC has a story with pictures of fossils found in Canada which are three dimensional. Even more interesting is that scientists consider the creatures, called rangemorphs, to be neither animal nor vegetable. In a related matter, geologists added the Ediacaran Period, in which these fossils lived, to their official history of Earth, the first new period to be added in 120 years."
If I had to take a swag, I'd say that the significance is that they're fossils of soft-bodied critters [um, or "thingies"] that were found in 3D, as most are squashed flat by the process that fossilized them.
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Also important is the fine detail preserved in the fossils, down to 30 micrometers.
No wonder all those dinosaurs died out, if they were 2-dimensional. I mean, how would they eat 3D plants?
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Do you need special glasses to see them?