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One of those headline rules got this one - it's supposed to say These fossils. Maybe edit to be more specific? Dumbbell shaped?
Yes. I thought this was going to be more "creationism" stuff (God made the fossils to test our faith /s)
Perhaps "Phallic Fossils Found" would have generated even more clicks?
Apparently the fossils are bifungites, created by an unidentified marine worm species.

The new findings suggest these worms belong to a group called Annulitubus.

Email improvements/suggestions to the mods at hn@ycombinator.com.

I've done so in this case suggesting the subhead, slightly edited, as "Marine worms made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites" (71 characters).

Contrary to popular belief, HN does permit title substitution, though it strongly prefers text from an alternate title or article text. See dang's guidance, e.g.:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39508321>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14833599>

I thought the rule here was to match the article headline, which is "These fossils..".
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