Earth's First Animals Kept in Touch Through Complex Networks of Strange Filaments
Earth’s First Animals Kept in Touch Through Complex Networks of Strange Filaments
Ancient fern-like creatures known as rangeomorphs might not have been as lonely as we once imagined. Filaments discovered in half-a-billion year old rocks in Newfoundland, Canada, suggest clusters of these early animals could have connected up through a network of thin fibres.
Exactly what these fibres did isn’t all that clear. Suggestions range from shared anchors to prevent the animals…
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