Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Fossil of ancient crustacean gathering reveals new insights into their lives<br><a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/march/fossil-ancient-crustacean-gathering-reveals-new-insights-into-their-lives.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">arch/fossil-ancient-crustacean-gathering-reveals-new-insights-into-their-lives.html</span></a></p><p>Gregarious behaviour in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Carboniferous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carboniferous</span></a> cyclidan <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/crustaceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crustaceans</span></a> <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0734" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0734</span></a></p><p>"With legs emerging from underneath rounded shells, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/cyclidans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyclidans</span></a> looked not unlike an underwater beetle. Earliest species were a few mm in size and form <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> that look like a tiny bunch of grapes. Over millions of years they evolved larger species, and by the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Triassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Triassic</span></a> they were about as wide as a human hand"</p>