Bizarre Fossils Are Neither Plant Nor Animal, But a 'Weird Fusion' of Life
2y 4mon ago by mander.xyz/u/fossilesque in palaeoecology@mander.xyz from www.sciencealert.com
...Dryad? Is that you?
Is it... an alien? It looks like a fingerprint.
Because here's the other wacky thing about Euglenids. In times of stress, these organisms wrap themselves up in a protective cyst, which looks sort of like a three-dimensional thumbprint, and enter a dormant state.
The resemblance really is uncanny! I wonder if each one is unique?