Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Evolving elegance: Scientists connect beauty and safeguarding in ammonoid shells
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evolving-elegance-scientists-beauty-safeguarding.html
#Fractal-like geometry as an evolutionary response to #predation? https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh0480
"Over the course of 350 million years of #evolution, #ammonoids repeatedly evolved #shells with increasingly complex inner walls. The persistence and repetitiveness of this trend imply some driving force"
Evolving elegance: Scientists connect beauty and safeguarding in ammonoid shells
Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals that are now an iconic fossil group often collected by amateurs. Over 350 million years of evolution, ammonoids developed increasingly elaborate shells with fractal-like geometry. For nearly 200 years, scientists have debated the reason why these animals show a trend of increasing complexity in their shell structures.