Monday, May 04, 2009

Fossil Sea Horses Found


The oldest seahorse fossils discovered to date have been uncovered...

Researcher Jure Žalohar of Slovenia's University of Ljubljana first spotted a fossil in the water as he was washing his hands in a stream after a jog.

Žalohar and colleagues were originally investigating fossil insects in this area, so finding the fossil seahorses was "completely unexpected," he said.

The findings appeared online April 17 in the French-language journal Annales de Paleontologie.


Anyone have any geological dates for these?

1 comment:

  1. Raymond5:26 PM

    Apparently 13 million years ago, in the Miocene

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