Preserving Stories Carved in Time

The fossil Britney Case Study

Arctic plesiosaur Britney with a tiny head and enormous eyes

Making its second AWA deposit, the Natural History Museum chose to preserve a “local” - the data from Ophthalmothule Cryostea , dubbed “ Britney ”, a 150-million-year-old fossil of a lizard like animal that was found in Svalbard in 2012. This find was incredibly important as it is the only one of this type of plesiosaurs in the world with a preserved skull, giving much more insight into the creature. Now Britney will be preserved for the next millennia in digital form on a reel of piqlFilm.

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