The Weird Ways Volcanos Make Fossils

Volcanoes have a big hand in shaping the world as it is. They build mountains, they form rock, and they even preserve some of the wildlife they killed. Volcanic ash can bury and preserve animals hundreds of miles away from an eruption!Closer to the volcano, pyroclastic flow can kill and create negative images of whatever it buried. The case of the Blue Lake Rhino is a further method of preservation, when a strange confluence of conditions left a rhino-shaped cave. Even stranger are dinosaur footprints that formed in magma underground! Volcanoes are crazy. (via Damn Interesting)