Source: China – South China Morning PostAncient “lamp shells” – bottom-dwelling invertebrates that once ruled the oceans – may have used hundreds of bristle-like structures to “social distance” in a bid to improve their chances of survival, Chinese palaeontologists have discovered.
Their findings are based on a fossilised species of brachiopods – or clam-like marine animals – that was discovered in China’s southwestern Guizhou province.
The fossils, discovered embedded in rocks, were found to be arranged in a “checkerboard-like”…Read More