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Trilobite fossils dating back to some 500 million years ago with an intact digestive system have been discovered in southern Morocco, not far from Zagora.
The finding was published by Britain’s prestigious scientific magazine Nature.
What is extraordinary about the Megistaspis, marine arthropods from the Paleozoic era, is the fact that their digestive system was intact.
The finding was made by a team of Spanish scientists headed by Professor Juan Carlos Gutierres-Marco from the Geosciences institute at the University of Madrid. Only about a dozen of archaeological sites worldwide can boast a similar discovery and many trilobites are little more than fossilized empty shells.
