Gunflint Fossil Reconstructed (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

Gunflint Fossil Reconstructed

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A 3D reconstruction of tubular Gunflintia fossils being eaten by heterotrophic bacteria (orange spheres and rod-shapes) gives the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other, Oxford University and University of Western Australia scientists report.

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David Wacey

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