The sedimentary shale deposits of the Messel Pits in Germany have produced some of the best preserved fossil remains of many species of the Eocene era

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The sedimentary shale deposits of the Messel Pits in Germany have produced some of the best preserved fossil remains of many species of the Eocene era. Such as this extinct ancestral python

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Location: Messel, Germany
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves / Alamy / Afripics
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