May 23, 2017

Parvancorina minchami fossil (Photo Masahiro miyasaka)

An article published in the journal “Biology Letters” describes a research on an organisms that belongs to the Parvancorina genus that lived over 540 million years ago, concluding that it had a higher mobility than previously thought. A team of researchers created simulations to understand how the water flowed around the body of a Parvcorina to understand its mobility. This research contradicts the common idea that organisms belonging to the so-called Ediacara fauna had a static life.