Fossil Meat Found in 380-Million-Year-Old Fish

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070212-fossil-tissue.html

An article in National Geographic News has a title to catch the eye (or nose) of seafood lovers: “Fossil Meat Found in 380-Million-Year-Old Fish.” Knowing how quickly fish spoils if left out, this might strike a reader as surprising. This placoderm, an extinct kind of armored fish, was found in the same formation as Gogonasus, another placoderm reported last year in Nature and judged to be an ancestor of tetra pods. Once again, a placoderm fossil from this vicinity is claimed to “shed light” on evolution. Two things are surprising the researchers about this fossil: (1) the soft tissue preservation, and (2) its “many features resembling those found on modern land animals.”