This is very cool. Scientists are using x-rays of fossils to piece together full images of what prehistoric organisms looked like and how they developed!

Paleontologists have been using acid to dissolve the embryo fossils out of rocks for about a decade, focusing on specimens from the time about 500 million years ago when multicellular animals began to proliferate. Tons of rock must be dissolved to retrieve a few hundred embryos, none of which are more than a fraction of a millimeter across.

Until now, Donoghue said, the specimens have mostly been treated as "curios of fossilization."

Using the new technique, he and his colleagues have been able to create cutaways, cross-sections and, by stringing together images of embryos at different stages of development, virtual time-lapse sequences of the animals’ metamorphosis.

The rest of the story can be found here.

One question though, for the people who don’t believe in evolution (not that anyone like that would be reading my blog, so this is rhetorical I guess)… if God snapped his fingers and “creation” started with the Garden of Eden, why did he plant all this evidence to the contrary? To confuse us? To keep us busy? What?