Tuesday 28 April 2015

Discovering missing body parts of ancient fossils





Certain specimens of Dickinsonia, a fossil of the Ediacaran biota, are incomplete because ancient currents lifted them from the sea floor, a team of researchers led by paleontologists at the University of California, Riverside, has found. Sand then got deposited beneath the lifted portion, the researchers report, strongly suggesting that Dickinsonia was mobile, easily separated from the sea floor and not attached to the substrate on which it lived.Full Story

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