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?
Apparently 13 million years ago, in the Miocene
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