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15 million-year-old mollusk protein found
Description: Scientists have found "beautifully preserved" 15 million-year-old thin protein sheets in fossil shells from southern Maryland. The team of researchers collected samples from Calvert Cliffs, along the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay, a popular fossil collecting area. They found fossilized shells of a snail-like mollusk called Ecphora that lived in the mid-Miocene era--between 8 and 18 million years ago. [Source: Carnegie Institution]
URL: http://carnegiescience.edu/news/15_millionyearold_mollusk_protein_found
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Source: Carnegie Institution
Publish Date: 2/4/2015
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