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Paleoecology (also spelled palaeoecology) is the study of interactions between organisms and/or interactions between organisms and their environments across geologic timescales. As a discipline, paleoecology interacts with, depends on and informs a variety of fields including paleontology, ecology, climatology and biology. Read more...

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Bizarre Fossils Are Neither Plant Nor Animal, But a 'Weird Fusion' of Life (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] Anticorp 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Is it... an alien? It looks like a fingerprint.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Because here's the other wacky thing about Euglenids. In times of stress, these organisms wrap themselves up in a protective cyst, which looks sort of like a three-dimensional thumbprint, and enter a dormant state.

The resemblance really is uncanny! I wonder if each one is unique?