Resurrecting an Extinct Animal as a Robot
A soft robot replica solves a mystery about the evolution of movement. The post Resurrecting an Extinct Animal as a Robot appeared first on Nautilus.
Fossils often seem to offer a rock-solid portrait of life forms long-gone, and a clear story about how evolution tracked from point A to point B. But sometimes scientists uncover remains that are so distinct from anything alive on Earth today that they struggle to characterize them.
Pleurocystitid represents one such enigma. This distant relative of the starfish—shaped like a tadpole, with a flat hard shell, two long arms, and a
