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I'm an amateur paleontologist, and rocks that happen to resemble fossils
are called pseudofossils (I've got a rock that looks like a giant toothy grin because a whitish mineral got into a crescent-shaped crack in it, and then it was ground down smooth be glacial effects.- this is my "Fossil Cheshire Cat".) but using the rover's microscopic viewer on any Martian fossils should be able to identify them with some degree of certainty true fossils show detail and symmetry under magnification; pseudofossils don't. Pseudo fossils can fool reasonable people. They can also fool Ed "Man as old as coal" Conrad and his Concretions (from talk.origins) into thinking that he's found the pancreases, brains, livers, and assorted other viscera of nine-foot tall 300 million year old humanoids. |
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