The forensics expert said the outer surface of April's coat was waterproof and would not shed fibres but the lining and fake fur of the hood could.

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In Maryland, Michael Pugh donned a wool coat, knit cap, waterproof pants and heavy boots to trudge more than a mile through four inches of wet snow to his bank in downtown Hagerstown, about 70 miles west of Baltimore.

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To preserve them for more than a billion years to make fossils out of ephemera a site first has to coat its remains in a fixative: a thin layer of waterproof sediment that will slowly harden into stone.

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