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공상과학 영화 속의 괴물 ‘고질라’를 닮은 수수께끼의 화석이 발견되어 과학자들을 당혹스럽게 하고 있다.
속칭 ‘고질라 화석’이라고 불리는 이 화석은 지난 3월 미국 켄터키 주에서 발견되었고 길이가 190cm, 무게가 68킬로그램 정도 나간다.
그러나 정작 이 화석이 동물인지, 광물인지, 식물인지조차 알 수 없어 과학자들을 당황시키고 있다.
화석을 발견한 아마추어 고생물학자 론 파인 씨는 이 화석이 고질라를 닮았다는 이유로 ‘고질루스’라고 이름을 붙였다. 그는 이 사건이 “궁극적인 미해결사건”이라고 말했다.
또한 파인씨는 이 화석들의 표면으로 보면 뿌리혹들 중 하나는 아닌 것 같고, 뼈가 없는 것으로 보아 생선도 동물도 아닌, 물에서 서식하는 산호나, 스펀지, 또는 해초류 중 하나로 보인다고 밝혔다. (코리아헤럴드)
Ohio man's fossil find in Kentucky stumps experts
Experts are trying to figure out what a fossil dubbed "Godzillus" used to be.
The 150-pound fossil recovered last year in northern Kentucky is more than 6 feet long and 3 feet wide. To the untrained eye, it looks like a bunch of rocks or a concrete blob. Experts are trying to determine whether it was an animal, mineral or a form of plant life from a time when the Cincinnati region was underwater.
Scientists at a Geological Society of America meeting viewed it Tuesday at the Dayton Convention Center in Ohio.
"We are looking for people who might have an idea of what it is," said Ben Dattilo, an assistant professor of geology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.
Scientists say the fossil is 450 million years old. University of Cincinnati geologist Carl Brett said it's the largest fossil ever extracted from that era in the Cincinnati region.
"This is the ultimate cold case," said Ron Fine, the Dayton, Ohio, amateur paleontologist who spotted the fossil on a hillside last year and gave it its name.
"Like Godzilla, it's a primordial beast that found its way to the modern era," Fine said. Now 43, he's been collecting fossils since age 4, and said he saw part of this one on a hillside off Kentucky 17 nearly a year ago.
"Most fossils around here are small, the size of your thumbnail or your thumb," he said. "This thing's huge."
