Fossil Snail Clusters showcase Above: Muhammad Ali training in

Above: Muhammad Ali training in 1973

living fossils that have remained unchanged since the ancient Devonian Age of Fishes

but that doesn’t make its methods any less brutal

Coelacanth ("The Living Fossil")

Fossil Snail Clusters showcase Above: Muhammad Ali training inFossils are often the remains of a solitary creature, but sometimes they are dramatic scenes of our entire ecosystem, preserved forever. These mass mortality fossils form when a group of animals is wiped out in a cataclysm, an image of their sudden extinction but also a preservation of how they lived. These specimens are fossil snail clusters, preserving the remains of an Elimia tenera colony, dated to 48 million years ago. Found in the Green River