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Palaeontologists create 3D digital model of ‘death drag’ left by prehistoric squid

An international team of scientists have uncovered the amazing story of a 150 million year old fossil ‘squid’ and have digitally recreated the fossil using 3D modelling technology.Fossil of ammonite Subplanites rueppellianus, producer of the 8.5-meter drag mark. Touchdown mark bottom left 
[Credit: Dean R. Lomax et al. PLOS ONE (2017)]The team is made up of researchers from England, Germany and Spain and led by palaeontologist...
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