Folded layers from the Quercianella palaeontological site in Italy. (IMAGE)

Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon

Folded layers from the Quercianella palaeontological site in Italy.

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Folded layers from the Quercianella palaeontological site in Italy. Scientists explored the Quercianella site and discovered the earliest evidence for deep-sea vertebrates. The fossil evidence consists of feeding and swimming traces produced by deep-sea fishes during Cretaceous times.

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Andrea Baucon.

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