Natural History Wanderings

Sciencealert reports

Earth’s fossil record stretches across long passages of unfathomably deep time, but each fossil is only a brief snapshot – of the moment when some living thing was buried in a flash and then slowly petrified.

In a stunning new example, scientists working in Germany have uncovered and described a six-armed brittle star, fossilized as it was partway through regenerating one body half.

Read more at  Wild Find: Fossil Captures 155-Million-Year-Old Brittle Star Mid-Regeneration : ScienceAlert