gratuitous paleontology

[fivemack]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8208838.stm

Scientists broke open a rock containing a 150-million-year-old squid and found still-liquid ink that they could write with.

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[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

Died, buried in *something* not permeable to water nor oxygen, but similarly not crushed by pressure, in a short order of time, and still chemically the same 150Myr later?

I may have drunk too much Guinness tonight, but that's pretty damn cool.