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F I S H I N A F I S H
Smithsonian Institution
Washington D.C.Friday, October 29, 2004
Talk about getting swallowed up by a bigger fish. At the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. you'll find an interesting and exceptionally rare fossil of a fish within a fish. I think the little fish must have had the last laugh, however. Maybe the big fish took too big a bite, resulting in perhaps a perforation of its digestive track, hence the death of the larger fish before the smaller fish could be digested?
Can you imagine the thrill of the paleontologists, as they're cleaning the fossil, trying to expose the mineralized bones through painstakingly slow methods. I can see them now, bent over the fossil, they've been on task all day for 12 hours straight, they're tired, hungry. They're thinking, "God, another stupid fish fossil. You know, I should have gone to Stanford Law School instead. I don't have a clue how I ended up here, scraping this stupid rock for hours on end with dental instruments. Hey, wait! What is this? OH MY GOD! It's a fish within a fish! Good Lord, I love being a paleontologist!"
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