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5 Fascinating Facts About Crustacean Fossils You Probably Didn’t Know

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Understanding crustacean fossils provides valuable insight into Earth’s ancient past. It tells stories of how life takes many different forms, how some species outlived others, and how adaptations evolved over hundreds of millions of years. By reading those fluid energies, where modifications occurred from prismatic seabed ages to extinction events, one can learn lessons about the history of marine forms. Present-day crabs, lobsters, and shrimps are well known, but their ancestors' fossils are preserved in an enigmatic and well-developed fossil record. More than just looking at fossils as a fun activity, examining them can be quite transformative, even more revolutionary, revealing what one imagined about the primordial oceans. How Did Crustacean Fossils Survive Against All Odds? The exoskeletons of crustaceans are much softer in comparison to more robust marine life, lending to the scarcity of crustacean fossils . For a crustacean to undergo fossilization, it has to be instantane...