Exciting research from one of my colleagues at #VirginiaTech

A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07520-y

#evolution #sponges #marine

A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal - Nature

Cross-hatch impressions from Ediacaran rocks in China are interpreted as having been left by a crown-group sponge fossil, Helicolocellus cantori gen. et sp. nov., characterized by an organic latticework skeleton.

^Nature

Position announcement at #VirginiaTech - Looking for a light microscopy specialist to lead the VT imaging core:

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