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Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post

So not only is this squid unevolved in over 150 million years of evolution it's ink sac full of ink has remained nice and wet for of all that time, no small achievement considering the nozzles on my last printer clogged and went dry after just a few months

Am I the only person here who is sceptical that ink can remain in a liquid form for over 150 million years? That's one hell of a fucking shelf life I'd like to see Epson manage that
Did you read the part about how the "ink" had solidified and had to be ground up and mixed with ammonia before they could "draw" with it?
Of course it would have solidified, that would have happened within a couple weeks, the point is that it shouldn't have remained at all. They have now found ink, blood cells, proteins, collagen etc that are supposedly tens of millions of years old, substances previously thought to have shelf lives in the thousands of years at best.

They have found unfossilised hadrosaur bones, do you even know how amazing that is? We now have miners hats from less than a hundred years ago completely fossilised yet some hadrosaur and T Rex bones defied the fossilisation process for millions and millions of years.

And now ink can apparently survive for 150,000,000 too.

I wonder how long before they find a prehistoric tomato from 80,000,000 BC that can be rehydrated and fed to some rabbits, and you'll helpfully point it that the tomato was sundried not fresh.