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Galaxies of life are collecting dust in museums – digitizing microscope slides can uncover billions of fossils for natural history

  • Written by Ingrid C. Romero, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Galaxies of life are collecting dust in museums – digitizing microscope slides can uncover billions of fossils for natural historyThis screenshot juxtaposes a fossil of stem from the plant _Archaeopitys eastmanii_ (bottom) and a close-up of its vascular system (top). The specimen was found in Kentucky and is over 350 million years old.Ingrid C. Romero, CC BY-SA

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