Scientists looked inside a rock pellet smaller than a grain of rice and found a 445-million-year-old world preserved within it — more than 20 microscopic marine organisms, including a species never seen before

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Fri, 4 September 2026
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  Scientists looked inside a rock pellet smaller than a grain of rice and found a 445-million-year-old world preserved within it — more than 20 microscopic marine organisms, including a species never seen before
  A microscopic time capsule from an ancient ocean reveals an entire ecosystem frozen in stone—and scientists didn't even know to look for it.