Lukas VFN ๐ช๐บDiscovery of 500-million-year-old #fossil reveals astonishing secrets of tunicate origins https://phys.org/news/2023-07-discovery-million-year-old-fossil-reveals-astonishing.html
A mid-#Cambrian #tunicate and the deep origin of the #ascidiacean body plan https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39012-4
"Ancestral #tunicates lived as stationary, filter-feeding adults and likely underwent #metamorphosis from a tadpole-like larva."
Discovery of 500-million-year-old fossil reveals astonishing secrets of tunicate origins
Karma Nanglu says his favorite animal is whichever one he's working on. But his latest subject may hold first place status for a while: a 500-million-year-old fossil from the wonderfully weird group of marine invertebrates, the tunicates.