Ancient Blob-Like Creature of the Deep Revealed by Scientist

sciencedaily.com — A unique blob-like creature that lived in the ocean approximately 425 million years ago is revealed in a 3D computer model. The model is helping researchers to understand what primitive species on early Earth looked like and how they might have evolved into the types of creatures that are on Earth today. Aug 5, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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bivariate Aug 5, 2010

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if pluto is not a planet and if triceratops never existed, then this creature never existed either.

sciguyaj Aug 5, 2010

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I just have to wonder how accurate those models are, but still, it's cool to look back at something that no longer exists and at least get some idea of how it lived.

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ausjp Aug 5, 2010

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I'd imagine it'd be fairly accurate, as we have plenty of mineralized lophophorate fossils to extrapolate data from. Further, this particular soft-bodied fossil was preserved three dimensionally, so it's merely a case of scanning in splices to recreate a model.