{"id":177378,"date":"2021-05-05T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=177378"},"modified":"2021-05-05T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:27:43","slug":"polish-researchers-discovered-a-living-fossil-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/polish-researchers-discovered-a-living-fossil-in-the-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish researchers discovered a &#8220;living fossil&#8221; in the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Miko\u0142aj Zapalski from the Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw (UW) and Dr Eng.\u00a0Marek Dohnalik from the Oil and Gas Institute &#8211; National Research Institute, together with scientists from Japan, discovered marine animals- crinoids covered by corals in the Pacific waters.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Such symbioses were known from the Paleozoic seas, but seemed to be extinct.\u00a0Researchers have described an\u00a0ecological &#8220;living fossil&#8221; that has not been found in the seas for 273 million years.\u00a0The scientists&#8217; article was published in the journal &#8220;Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The test animals were fished from a depth of 100 meters on the Pacific coasts of the Honshu and Shikoku islands.\u00a0The research was conducted using a computer microtomograph.\u00a0The results showed that, unlike their Paleozoic ancestors, today&#8217;s corals did not modify their host&#8217;s skeleton.\u00a0Despite such differences in the skeleton record, the discovered coral- crinoids pairs may serve as a model for the corresponding Palaeozoic interactions.<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=ru&amp;prev=_t&amp;sl=pl&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0031018221002042%3Fvia%253Dihub\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0031018221002042?via%3Dihub<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Miko\u0142aj Zapalski from the Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw (UW) and Dr Eng.\u00a0Marek Dohnalik from the Oil and Gas Institute &#8211; National Research Institute, together with scientists from Japan, discovered marine animals- crinoids covered by corals in the Pacific waters.\u00a0 Such symbioses were known from the Paleozoic seas, but seemed to be extinct.\u00a0Researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}