Advanced Imaging Techniques Outline the Fossilized Brain Structures (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Advanced Imaging Techniques Outline the Fossilized Brain Structures

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A: Under a light microscope, the above fossil shows traces of preserved neural tissues in black. B: An elemental scan of this fossil uncovered that carbon (in pink) and iron (in green) do not overlap in the preserved neural tissue.

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Strausfeld et al. and Current Biology

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