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Discovery of 48-million-year-old daddy longlegs with their iridescent, metallic appearance intact
These shimmering harvestmen now live in rainforests, which supports the classification of the Messel Pit as a subtropical to tropical forest habitat. At that time, tropical arachnids lived in ...
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Fossil deposit Messel Pit
One of the world's most important fossil sites: The Messel Pit is the remnant of a 48-million-year-old volcanic lake! Take a flight over the UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site with our drone.
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'I have never written of a stranger organ': The rise of the placenta and how it helped make us human
at around the time that the animals of the Messel Pit were alive, the mammal placenta was changing. Natural selection was ...