A simple vista, parece un panal de abejas fosilizado. Pero el fósil de Paleodycton es una caja de sorpresas, no solo porque no se sabe qué organismo lo produjo hace millones de años, sino que ese organismo sigue vivo hoy, dejando esos mismos patrones en los fondos oceánicos de todo el planeta.
Senckenberg am Meer Research Institute
The research institute Senckenberg am Meer is a centre of worldwide biological and geological coastal and marine research with working areas from the North Sea coast to the deep sea and from the tropics to the polar regions. We study the impacts and risks of today’s environmental changes on marine ecosystems, their habitats and on changes in biodiversity with a broad spectrum of methods. Our expertise also includes the interpretation of biosphere crises in the geological past and has a focus on biogeographical distribution patterns of selected species using state-of-the-art molecular genetic methods.
The institute consists of two departments, Marine Research (MEFO) and the German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), which has a location in Wilhelmshaven as well as Hamburg.
