Brain and Brain, What is BRAIN!!

[gategrrl]

Always wanted to use that old Star Trek line.

The oldest fossilized brain of all (an ancient fish) was found. It's rare to find fish that aren't pancake flat because of the pressure of tons of sand piling on top of them, but the specimen described in this article actually had a *mineralized brain!* Yes! And there's some cool 3-d scanned imagery you can watch on the page the article is on. It's pretty cool!

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[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

It would be hard to imagine a future archeologist digging through a cemetery and concluding all sorts of things from the dead! (although that's what they do all the time)