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Uncovering a massive 12-million-year-old crab fossil sealed in rock

http://youtu.be/AwLNy9k7pVw

This New Zealand YouTuber recently uncovered a massive 12-million-year-old crab fossil sealed in rock.

Mamlambo Fossils filmed a timelapse as he intricately removed the rock enclosing the fossil.

“The species is a Tumidocarcinus giganteus from the mid-Miocene, around 12-million-years-ago,” he told Newsflare.

“The prep took 208 hours and the processing of the 1200GB of 4K footage took another 20 hours and I still had to edit the video itself. All in, I think I have spent 250 hours on this project!” he added.

“The final weight of the crab is 7.3kg, more than 16kg of rock was removed chip by tiny chip,” he concluded.

Check out his channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCihsB_IfuH2f5sGd5JbuAVw

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