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Freshwater eel fossil

Freshwater eel fossil from Hindon Maar.

A fossil from Hindon Maar shows skeletal details of the freshwater eel Anguilla.

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Rights: John Conran, Daphne Lee and Uwe Kaulfuss, CC BY-SA 4.0
Published: 8 August 2023Updated: 7 August 2023Size: 2.98 MB
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