Finding a single fossil of an animal that died some 50 million years ago is cool. Finding two? That's just plain awesome. But what about finding 259 of them at once? Well, there just isn't a word in the English language to describe that level of greatness.
That's exactly what researchers from Arizona State University and Japan's Mizuta Memorial Museum uncovered hiding within a big chunk of limestone in the fossil hotspot known as the Green River Formation. The hundreds of tiny fossils are what's left of a school of tiny fish that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the discovery is helping scientists better understand how ancient fish behaved.
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