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Imperial College London - Return of the Silurian blob

Published on
August 12, 2010
Last updated
May 22, 2015

An ancient creature of the deep has been revealed by scientists at Imperial College London. They have developed a 3D model of the only known fossilised specimen of a creature, called Drakozoon, which lived in the ocean 425 million years ago. Drakozoon was a cone-shaped, blob-like creature with a hood and probably had a leathery exterior skin. It seems to have survived by attaching itself to hard surfaces such as rock. Mark Sutton, senior lecturer at Imperial's department of earth science and engineering, said: "Our 3D model brings back to life a creature that until recently no one knew even existed."

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