Scorpion Survives Inside Fossil Sample

news.yahoo.com — A scorpion lived for 15 months without food or water inside the plaster mold of a dinosaur fossil, breaking free only when a scientist broke open the mold. Don DeBlieux, a paleontologist for the Utah Geological Survey, said he was sawing open the plaster mold when the scorpion wriggled from a crack in a sandstone block. Jan 27, 2006 View in Crawl 4