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UA Paleontologist Discovers Rare Soft Tissue in Fossil

In a recently published paper, Dr. Adiel Klompmaker, University of Alabama Museums’ curator of paleontology, and colleagues reported on a remarkable crab with multiple mineralized soft tissues preserved. This crab lived 75 million years ago during the Cretaceous in the area of present-day South Dakota in an ancient sea known as the Western Interior Seaway.

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