A rare natural phenomenon — called “The Medusa Effect” — preserved an ancient squid by turning its soft tissues into stone. And its ink into a Bic pen . . . via the BBC:
The fossil, thought to be 150 million years old, was found when a rock was cracked open, revealing the one-inch-long black ink sac.
A picture of the creature and its Latin name was drawn using its ink.
Dr Phil Wilby of the British Geological Survey said it was an ancient creature similar to the modern-day squid. “The structure is similar to ink from a modern squid so we can write with it,” he said.
Here’s the thing — isn’t 150,000,000-year-old squid anything, like, really valuable? Why would a scientist want to draw with it instead of, say, study it?
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