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What Will The Fossils Of The Future Look Like?

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Aug 28, 202535:23Science & Medicine

Today’s rubbish may well be the fossils of tomorrow. Plastic bags, old pens, cheap clothing, or even chicken bones are all examples of possible “technofossils”, rapidly accumulating debris and detritus that may come to r...

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What Will The Fossils Of The Future Look Like? is an episode from IFLScience - The Big Questions by IFLScience. Today’s rubbish may well be the fossils of tomorrow. Plastic bags, old pens, cheap clothing, or even chicken bones are all examp...

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Published Aug 28, 2025, 35:23 long, audio available.

What Will The Fossils Of The Future Look Like?

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