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Elusive builders of nearly perfect hexagonal tunnel fossils were probably small crustaceans—not worms
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Phys.org Breaking News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 21 Sept 2026, 17:20 UTC. The headline in use is “Elusive builders of nearly perfect hexagonal tunnel fossils were probably small crustaceans—not worms”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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For more than 170 years, paleontologists have been trying to solve the mystery of what created the strangely uniform hexagonal tunnels found in fossils. In a new study published in Earth Science Reviews, a team of researchers pored over the evidence and concluded that the most likely culprit was a…
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