An Ancient Organism's Feeding Habits Gives New Meaning to "Family Style" Meals (4 of 8) (IMAGE)

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An Ancient Organism's Feeding Habits Gives New Meaning to "Family Style" Meals (4 of 8)

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Well preserved Ernietta with bottom suture and individual modules visible. 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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Charlotte Kenchington

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