Lukas VFN 🇪🇺May 9, 2023

Earth's first #animals had particular taste in real estate
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-earth-animals-real-estate.html

Spatial distributions of #Tribrachidium, #Rugoconites, and #Obamus from the #Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/abs/spatial-distributions-of-tribrachidium-rugoconites-and-obamus-from-the-ediacara-member-rawnsley-quartzite-south-australia/066B9AD6529D8E2958DB13FBC9551D5C

"Given the alien nature of #Ediacaran Earth, the researchers were surprised to find an #animal that lived much the way #barnacles do today."

Earth's first animals had particular taste in real estate

Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows—for the first time—that some of Earth's earliest animals managed to be picky about where they lived.

Phys.org