An Ancient Organism's Feeding Habits Gives New Meaning to "Family Style" Meals (1 of 8) (IMAGE)

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An Ancient Organism's Feeding Habits Gives New Meaning to "Family Style" Meals (1 of 8)

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Artistic reconstruction of a gregarious community of Ernietta. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 19th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.M. Gibson at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, and colleagues was titled, "Gregarious suspension feeding in a modular Ediacaran organism."

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Dave Mazierski

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