X-ray scan of fossil kelp holdfast (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

X-ray scan of fossil kelp holdfast

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An X-ray reconstruction of a 32-million-year-old fossil kelp holdfast colored to show the base (orange), holdfast (yellow) and the bivalve shell to which it attached (blue).

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Dula Parkinson/Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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