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Deep sea 'mushroom' may be new branch of life

  • 09-09-2014 08:29PM
    #1
    Capt'n Midnight
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29054889
    A mushroom-shaped sea animal discovered off the Australian coast has defied classification in the tree of life.

    ...

    The authors of the article note several similarities with the bizarre and enigmatic soft-bodied life forms that lived between 635 and 540 million years ago - the span of Earth history known as the Ediacaran Period.

    Unfortunately they don't have DNA so we'll have to wait until more are found. But it might shed more light on how diverse live was before the Cambrian "explosion"


Comments

  • #2
    countrynosebag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭countrynosebag


    I give up often as I think the planet just cannot cope any more, which makes it even more vital that we take care of us much as we can NOW and not set these stupid targets for 2050 and the like.
    Lately I have been hearing of a few species moving in to deal with over population/imbalances of certain species (Portuguese man of war off Irish Coast worth looking up) and even a few hitherto unknown species found.
    I hope these are not raided. I also would like to know anyone's thoughts on whether these are actually new life forms or simply recently discovered as exploration (hopefully not ruination) of habitats made possible.


  • #3
    Greenmachine
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    Is a mushroom, is it a jellyfish. No it's both. :D


  • #4
    riffmongous
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    I thought this was so cool to read about, I am always fascinated by the very early sea life as they were just so alien and weird looking.


  • #5
    djflawless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭djflawless


    countrynosebag wrote: »
    I give up often as I think the planet just cannot cope any more, which makes it even more vital that we take care of us much as we can NOW and not set these stupid targets for 2050 and the like.
    Lately I have been hearing of a few species moving in to deal with over population/imbalances of certain species (Portuguese man of war off Irish Coast worth looking up) and even a few hitherto unknown species found.
    I hope these are not raided. I also would like to know anyone's thoughts on whether these are actually new life forms or simply recently discovered as exploration (hopefully not ruination) of habitats made possible.

    IMO its only a new discovery. Not a newly formed/evolved species.
    In fairness, coelacanth was supposed to be extinct 50-60 odd million years ago
    But are being found the past 50 years by some studies


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