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PREHISTORIC LIFE
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Elegant fossil remains of a bird,
probably a rail, preserved in
mid-Eocene oil shale about 50
million years ago and found in the
Messel Formation near
Frankfurt, Germany.
Specimen courtesy of
Andreas Guhr,
Hamburger Mineralien-Zentrum,
Germany.

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