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Weird Fossils Show Ancient Organism Reproducing
ananyo writes "Strange fossils from Doushantuo in China, have turned out to be 570-million-year-old snapshots of an organism caught in the act of reproducing. Researchers have used three-dimensional X-ray scanning techniques to see that the fossils contain nuclei-like structures — and one even has the dumb-bell shape of a modern nucleus about to replicate. The fossils have divided palaeontologists for over a decade. It now seems likely they are fossils of creatures similar to modern single-celled microorganisms called mesomycetozoeans that are neither animals nor bacteria."
snapshots of an organism caught in the act of reproducing.
So its half a billion year old kiddie pr0n. nsfw. its a trap. I'm not clicking that link, not my thing at all. I remember when /. was more wholesome and family oriented and you just had to worry about goatse links.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Whew, the .xxx TLD was made available just in time. Now we can register 570millionyearoldporn.xxx
Those organisms existed, thus there must be their porn somewhere on the Internet.
And now there is.
You can't handle the truth.
FTFA: "The partitions resemble animal-cell cleavage"
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The fossils have divided palaeontologists for over a decade
I see what you did there.
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If your erection lasts longer then 4 million years please call a physician?
I thought Fossils were the target market of Viagra?
If your erection lasts longer then 4 million years please call a physician?
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