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One of the Oldest Known 3D Animal Fossils Found in Norwegian Sheep Field

Researchers say the fossil preserves rare three-dimensional anatomy from the Ediacaran period, offering clues to how early animals were preserved.

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One of the oldest known 3D fossils of an animal has been discovered in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic, the first new major site of its kind anywhere in Europe in decades.

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Rare fossils were discovered by researchers of an animal that lived about 560 million years ago, in a sheep field in the Finnmark area of northern Norway, one of the oldest three-dimensional animal fossils ever found.

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On a sheep pasture in the far north of Norway, a rock block from a cliff has crashed and broken open. The post sheep pasture in Norway gives ancient animal fossil price first appeared on Nordic.info.

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