Tiny, ancient fossil shows evidence of the breath of life
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-tiny-ancient-fossil-evidence-life.html
The specimen has been given the name Spiricopia aurita, from the Latin words for 'breath of life', 'abundance' and 'ears'.
Professor David Siveter, from the University of Leicester's School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, said: "This is an exciting and rare find, in which the soft parts of the animal are preserved as well as its shell. In almost all cases such fleshy structures are denied to the fossil record. It gives us a tantalising window into the palaeobiology of the animal and here yields knowledge about important organ-systems and associated metabolic activities in what is a widespread group of fossil and living arthropods."
Tiny, ancient fossil shows evidence of the breath of life
Nov 7, 2018, 1:16pm UTC
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-tiny-ancient-fossil-evidence-life.html
> The specimen has been given the name Spiricopia aurita, from the Latin words for 'breath of life', 'abundance' and 'ears'.
> Professor David Siveter, from the University of Leicester's School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, said: "This is an exciting and rare find, in which the soft parts of the animal are preserved as well as its shell. In almost all cases such fleshy structures are denied to the fossil record. It gives us a tantalising window into the palaeobiology of the animal and here yields knowledge about important organ-systems and associated metabolic activities in what is a widespread group of fossil and living arthropods."