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            Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years
                
                    
                        
                            Season 4
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 33
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Paleodictyon, a hexagonal-patterned fossil, is a bit of a mystery. We don’t even know if it’s a trace fossil, or the organism itself. So… what could it be?
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