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Old July 21st, 2016 #70
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Penis-shaped fossils from Canadian Rockies solve century-old mystery

Weird tubes weren't algae, but huge structures built by little acorn worm


Paleontologists have finally identified two kinds of mysterious fossils misidentified for a century — and traced them both to some phallus-shaped worms that lived 505 million years ago and built themselves some very elaborate homes.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/oe...sils-1.3670700