Dr. Yara Haridi

which is pretty funny.

I think it was like one of the only citations we've gotten for the paper so far, but yeah, it's a pretty new paper, but it was hilarious.

It was pretty good.

I can send it to you.

It's so bizarre.

And so one of the things I really wanted to look at was this early fish from the Cambrian thing.

And so people found it and thought that this was the earliest vertebrate.

And I was like, great, we're going to image this thing with all this new methods that we have.

So I now use a particle accelerator to image fossils.

I've never heard about this.

Okay.

So synchrotrons are these rings that you accelerate an electron in, and then you basically shoot x-rays from the bending of those to fossils.

And it's basically like 100 billion times stronger than your doctor's x-ray.

Really strong.

Strong enough to get through rock.

So people use it for like batteries.

People use it for all kinds of things.

We used it for rocks.

And I was like, okay, I want to shoot these really early fossils.

Let's see if these like early fragments really are teeth.