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Researchers identify oldest known species of swimming jellyfish

3 years ago by Gsus4 to c/jellyfish

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The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) announces the oldest swimming jellyfish in the fossil record with the newly named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis. These findings are announced in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Incredible how these animals are so tenuous and can still leave a fossil record

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