FIGURE 3. Tissue preservation in fossils.

From the following article:

Evolution of anatomy and gene control

Georgy Koentges

Nature 451, 658-663(7 February 2008)

doi:10.1038/451658a

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a, Exquisitely preserved histology of muscle fibres with Z-banding and b, motor-axon endplates (arrows) in a 380-million-year-old placoderm. Scale bar: 20 microm. (From ref. 10, courtesy of the Royal Society.)

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