This curious fernlike fossil is a rangeomorph, a member of a group believed (though no one is quite sure) to have been sessile animals. They lived on the seabed 565m years ago, during the Ediacaran period, which preceded the explosion of animal life during the Cambrian. The specimen shown is part of a study led by Nick Butterfield of Cambridge University, just published in Nature. Dr Butterfield and his colleagues wondered if they could work out how rangeomorphs reproduced. They looked at three ...
This curious fernlike fossil is a rangeomorph, a member of a group believed (though no one is quite sure) to have been sessile animals. They lived on the seabed 565m years ago, during the Ediacaran period, which preceded the explosion of animal life during the Cambrian. The specimen shown is part of a study led by Nick Butterfield of Cambridge University, just published in Nature. Dr Butterfield and his colleagues wondered if they could work out how rangeomorphs reproduced. They looked at three ...
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