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  • Gsus4@feddit.nltoScience Memes@mander.xyzCope
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    9 months ago

    You can’t just collect and analyse the data either, you have to write a kickass paper, design an appealing poster and present it like it’s the best thing ever and the respective talk…oh yea and then you have to write tons of kickass proposals to get the funding to do more experiments to collect more data and analyse it and… :)








  • ostracods, a small crustacean that remains common today (there are 13,000 existing ostracod species). Some of these appear to be larval versions of the animal. There are also fragments of thin shells that probably were derived from shellfish like clams and mussels, as well as some pieces of an echinoderm (think starfish and sea urchins).

    Overall, the most striking thing about the food present is the sheer variety of it. It appears as if the animal hoovered up anything with a shell it came across on the floor of the body of water it was living in.