6 April 2021 /
555 myo fossils reveal early Arkarua feeding
An international team of researchers has shed light on the feeding mode of Pentaradial Arkarua, a strange, alien-like creature.
By Annemarie Gaskin, University of Adelaide
This creature inhabited tropical, shallow waters covering the Flinders Ranges of South Australia 555 million years ago according to the collaborative team involving South Australian Museum and Environment Institute’s Associate Professor Diego C. García-Bellido, along with several European institutions. Their discoveries were recently published in
The multi-celled organisms of the Ediacara Biota are the oldest complex life forms on our planet. In most cases they are very different from anything around today, or for that matter, around for the last 500 million years of animal evolution, making it difficult to put them in the appropriate branch of the tree of life.