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Dickinsonia costata (Ediacaran fossil), South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia. Photo by James St. John from Flickr. CC BY 2.0

Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation throughout the Ediacaran period

18 May 2022

It is now out in PLOS Biology a paper showing that early animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, setting the evolutionary stage for the Cambrian explosion. Rebecca Eden, Andrea Manica, Emily G. Mitchell (2022) Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation...