#dickinsonia

[ronin-tierney]

Chat I’ve discovered a new animal that occurred millions of years ago that was one of the first animals to live.

This is the Dickinsonia. It’s a disk lookin organism that lived over 500 million years ago.

I fucking love this creature

Mmm Dickinsonia

[aquaticinverts]

dickinsonia

[lunarchandelure]

[critterpalooza]

Free crumb PSDs I made for aywas!!! I have ALWAYS wanted to own a bunch of ediacaran and cambrian fauna as pets on a website, but a lot of them are very obscure. Now with Aywas I can have my dream! Thank you aywas for letting me create anything I can dream of. Pictured here in order is: - Didazoon - Vetulicola - Haikouicthys - Dickinsonia with added legs. I will be making a PSD for a more normal one later! the coloured versions are personal ones I coloured for myself These are in the edit respiratory and are free for anyone to colour, edit, breed, whatever your heart desires! can be made with silver crystal crumbs, or platinum custom crystal. Enjoy!

[adamrakistar]

I think its so weird what we consider to be animals, on surface knowledge you only think of typical household pets but ive dug through the internet to find out that the first ever animal to exist, was originally considered to be like a jellyfish or a fungus. Which leads me to..the first ever known animal called a dickinsonia and it existed around 558 million years ago. Long time right ? Get this, most aquatic animals have gills right? This one doesnt. So how does it breathe? It breathes from the surface of its skin. It didnt have a mouth, nose, gut or even an anus.How does it reproduce? How does it eat? It was believed that it ingested nutrients and microbial food sources through dragging itself across the ground, soaking it all into its tissue.

Here's a thing for everyone in the asexual community, it too, was asexual. Here's why..

According to Google it reproduced asexually by"adding new body segments" sounds freaky right? They also say that by doing that new units were being added near one end of the body & then expanded rather than at the tip. And alot like an planarian (worm), it can regrow itself after being hurt. Scientists actually learned abt this by studying its fossil and seeing signs of regrowth in different axes.

[fristooregano]

FIIINE i'll start posting here

an idea i had for a fossil fakemon based on the Dickinsonia, a long extinct species from the Ediacaran.

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Spriggle - Stat Spread: 100/1/30/1/45/97 (BST: 274)

Spriggle is quite an unusual specimen, living in a world before any predators entered the fossil record, thus not needing to ever attack or defend itself. Theories suggest that Spriggle was driven to extinction after the introduction of the first macro predators, such as Anorith.

Zaglateir - Stat Spread: 150/30/45/75/60/106 (BST: 466)

ABILITY: Common Ancestor; All switches have the Baton Pass effect.

Studies suggest Zaglateir was Spriggles response to the new predators entering the ecosystem, being much stronger than its previous evolution. However, very few Spriggle ever lived long enough to evolve in to Zaglateir, leading to their sudden disappearance from the fossil record.

[strangled-mangoes]

i have been leaving so many comments on tiktok about the dickinsonia lately. i was just reminded of one from last year. i love this thing so much

one of the funniest things about this for me is that i’ve gotten likes on them. esp the one with the fly high emojis…. i wonder if they like him.

do you like him? he’s cute. he’s a great animal. maybe if we think about him enough, he will return. like jesus

[9to5buzzcom]

On Sep 21, 2018, A report published claimed that the fossils of Dickinsonia were the oldest animals to roam the planet.