Fossils Are Found All Over, but What Made Them Was a Mystery

Re:Fossils Are Found All Over, but What Made Them Was a Mystery by nemomarx on Monday August 26, 2024 @01:31PM (#41359545)

One of those headline rules got this one - it's supposed to say These fossils. Maybe edit to be more specific? Dumbbell shaped?

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Re:Fossils Are Found All Over, but What Made Them Was a Mystery by AlbertCory on Monday August 26, 2024 @06:06PM (#41362707)

Yes. I thought this was going to be more "creationism" stuff (God made the fossils to test our faith /s)

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Re:Fossils Are Found All Over, but What Made Them Was a Mystery by mrbluecoat on Monday August 26, 2024 @06:09PM (#41362729)

Perhaps "Phallic Fossils Found" would have generated even more clicks?

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Re:Fossils Are Found All Over, but What Made Them Was a Mystery by jumploops on Monday August 26, 2024 @06:24PM (#41362835)

Apparently the fossils are bifungites, created by an unidentified marine worm species.

The new findings suggest these worms belong to a group called Annulitubus.

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Re:Fossils Are Found All Over, but What Made Them Was a Mystery by dredmorbius on Monday August 26, 2024 @06:54PM (#41363009)

Email improvements/suggestions to the mods at [email protected].

I've done so in this case suggesting the subhead, slightly edited, as "Marine worms made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites" (71 characters).

Contrary to popular belief, HN does permit title substitution, though it strongly prefers text from an alternate title or article text. See dang's guidance, e.g.:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39508321>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14833599>

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Re:Fossils Are Found All Over, but What Made Them Was a Mystery by tensor on Monday August 26, 2024 @07:03PM (#41363070)

I thought the rule here was to match the article headline, which is "These fossils..".

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