Drakozoon was a blob - like animate being that lived in the oceans during the Silurian Period , some 425 million years ago . It was bed from only a single dodo – until research worker sliced and diced their specimen to create this 3D model .
Drakozoon was a tiny , simple being , only about 3 millimeters long . influence like a cone , it belike had a “ hood ” that it could pull out over the rest of its body as protection against predator . It had a leathery cutis and tiny tentacles that it used to catch piddling organic particles in the sea urine . That ’s an painful fortune to be intimate about an organism for which only a single , late discovered fogey exists , and it ’s all thanks to the 3D imaging work done by researcher at Imperial College London .
As Professor Mark Sutton explains :

“ Excitingly , our 3D model brings back to lifetime a creature that until recently no one knew even survive , and allow us with a windowpane into the lifetime of Drakozoon . We think this bantam blob of jelly survived by clinging onto rocks and hard shelled beast , ca-ca a living by plucking microscopic morsels out of seawater . By take care at this archaic creature , we also get one tantalising step closer to understanding what the early creature on Earth looked like . ”
to create the 3D model , they had to give the original fossil . They trim back it into 200 individual pieces , then scanned every side of these piece to create the example . Beyond figuring out what Drakozoon looked like and how it act , the exemplar also revealed eight ridge on either side of its organic structure , a genetic end of a time when it had a segmented body complex body part . This supports the current theory thatsegmented creatures are a common ancestorfor all life on Earth .
https://gizmodo.com/meet-your-true-ancestor-the-segmented-worm-5597276

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