Fossil of the Extinct Organism <i>Tribrachidium</i> (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Fossil of the Extinct Organism <i>Tribrachidium</i>

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Computer simulations have allowed scientists, led by Dr Imran Rahman of the University of Bristol, UK to work out how this 555-million-year-old organism with no known modern relatives fed. Their research reveals that some of the first large, complex organisms on Earth formed ecosystems that were much more complex than previously thought.

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M. Laflamme

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Image is for single use only to illustrate articles on the Science Advances paper 'Suspension feeding in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism <i>Tribrachidium</i> demonstrates complexity of Neoproterozoic ecosystems' by Rahman et al ,and is not to be archived. Please credit the copyright holder M. Laflamme

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