A bizarre group of uniquely shaped organisms known as rangeomorphs may have been some of the earliest animals to appear on Earth, uniquely suited to ocean conditions 575 million years ago. A new model ...

Rangeomorphs, fern-like animals from the Ediacaran period, were distinguished, to say the least. In their hey day, these early lifeforms colonized entire sea floors and grew up to two meters tall.

This is a paleontological reconstruction of rangeomorph fronds from the Ediacaran Period (635-541 million years ago). These species are from the deep-marine Avalon Assemblage (approximately 575-560 ...

Read more: Click here to read the original, longer version of this story. IS IT a tree? Is it a fern? No, it’s a rangeomorph, one of the first complex organisms to evolve. A new analysis of their ...

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Is it a tree? Is it a fern? No, it’s a rangeomorph, one of the first complex organisms to evolve on Earth. A new analysis of their fossils suggests that rangeomorphs’ strange bodies evolved to absorb ...

Paleontologlar 2000’li yılların başlarında Newfounland’de ilginç bir görüntü ile karşılaştı. İki metre uzunluğunda, 571 milyon yaşında olduğu hesaplanan hem yaprak hem de dal görünümünde ...