Attacking an enigma with engineering
Experiments in a water tank help scientists understand the earliest large creatures on Earth.
References:
Schopf, K.M., and T.K. Baumiller. 1998. A biomechanical approach to Ediacaran hypotheses: How to weed the Garden of Ediacara. Lethaia 3:89.
Sources:
Tomasz K. Baumiller
University of Michigan
Department of Geological Sciences
Museum of Paleontology
1109 Geddes Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48109Kenneth M. Schopf
Harvard University
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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