Dezene Huber 🌻 on Nostr: A new 500 million year old #sea #jelly 🪼 #fossil, and the first sea jelly from the ...
A new 500 million year old #sea #jelly 🪼 #fossil, and the first sea jelly from the #Burgess #Shale.
The researchers named it Burgessomedusa phasmiformis. The species name means “ghostly form” because they thought it looks like the ghosts from #Pac-#Man.
There is some dispute, but this may be the oldest known sea jelly, and is important to our understanding of the #evolution of #animals.
Explainer 🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jellyfish-fossil-1.6924274
OA 🔗 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2490
The researchers named it Burgessomedusa phasmiformis. The species name means “ghostly form” because they thought it looks like the ghosts from #Pac-#Man.
There is some dispute, but this may be the oldest known sea jelly, and is important to our understanding of the #evolution of #animals.
Explainer 🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jellyfish-fossil-1.6924274
OA 🔗 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2490