This is an article in the shitrag Torygraph and it doesn’t even include a link to the original paper!
There’s a preprint of the paper here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643340v1.full.pdf
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Hmm, preprint, submitted 2025 March 17, appears to be taking a while to get past the review process to full publication. It’s fascinating how much we’ve learned to tell about biological processes by looking at the fossilization end products.
These have been studied for quite a while.
Thank you for making the one comment with any science value, on a science post. I learned about something new.
*fossil of an organism
“new lifeform that became extinct around 370 million years ago”
Weirdest comments for a science community…
Scientists found fossil extinct around 370 million years ago in Scotland
Fuck clickbaity headlines. And a fossil isn’t a organism anymore.
Also, it’s this one.
Link without pay wall https://archive.ph/LEcGT
It looks like a giant…
Dick! Dick, take a look out of starboard…
It’s long and hard to scan. We need to get someone in there… Peter
It looks like a giant, check this out Johnson!
I was about to say dildo, but that checks out as well
They were trying to start an Austin Powers thing, but everyone here failed them.
They discovered Ents.
Soooo… let’s clone it and see what happens!
Easy there, Hammond!
Fossils don’t typically contain DNA
I saw a really good rundown of this the other day on YouTube: “Presented by Joe Botting, independent palaeontologist and Honorary Research Fellow at the National Museum Wales”:
i hear gene belcher, “land boner!”
Some real Flesh Gordon vibes
I think they’ll find it was my penis. And yes, it is alive
I came here to ensure this comment was added. You did your part!
I couldn’t let such a good opportunity go unexploited
A what now?
Edit: oh, extinct: (
Maybe its a protists like thing similar to coral? Idk
