The exceptional sedimentary rocks exposed along the Lindos Bay on the island of Rhodes (Greece) hold fossil archives of the ecosystem and climatic conditions in the eastern Mediterranean hundreds of thousands of years ago. From these, researchers isolated otoliths to reconstruct the fish fauna at that time. (IMAGE)

University of Vienna

The exceptional sedimentary rocks exposed along the Lindos Bay on the island of Rhodes (Greece) hold fossil archives of the ecosystem and climatic conditions in the eastern Mediterranean hundreds of thousands of years ago. From these, researchers isolated otoliths to reconstruct the fish fauna at that time.

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The exceptional sedimentary rocks exposed along the Lindos Bay on the island of Rhodes (Greece) hold fossil archives of the ecosystem and climatic conditions in the eastern Mediterranean hundreds of thousands of years ago. From these, researchers isolated otoliths to reconstruct the fish fauna at that time.

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C: Konstantina Agiadi

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