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La Ciccia delle Ammoniti

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On the Rocks


By Willy Guasti

Ammonites, ancient relatives of cuttlefishes and octopuses with a spiraling shell, are among the most famous fossil organisms. Nevertheless, they are one of palaeontology's greatest misteries! I decided to tell about a recent scientific paper about a burmese amber, that could have been one of the most important revelations of palaeontology... but Nature has a bad sense of humor.


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