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Here’s the fossil… what can you tell about how this animal lived? Matteo De Stefano/MUSE-Science Museum

Reverse engineering mysterious 500‑million‑year‑old fossils that confound our tree of life

Simon Darroch, Vanderbilt University and Imran Rahman, University of Oxford

With no identifiable body parts, it’s hard to know how these fossilized creatures lived. A new approach models how the ocean’s water would interact with their unique shapes – hinting at their lifestyle.

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