WASHINGTON — A 300-million-year-old fossilized brain has been discovered by researchers studying a type of fish that once lived in what is now Kansas and Oklahoma.
"Fossilized brains are unusual, and this is by far the oldest known example," said John Maisey, curator in the division of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
"Soft tissue has fossilized in the past, but it is usually muscle and organs like kidneys," Maisey said in a statement.
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The previous known oldest pair of fossilized brains…
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