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Title: Ancient Larve Built Predator-Thwarting Mazes
Author: Thomas Sumner
Narrator: Mark Moran
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 min
Language: English
Release date: 11-03-15
Publisher: Science News
Genres: Science & Technology, Magazine & Radio
Publisher's Summary:
Modern animals such as rodents and platypuses dig underground labyrinths to confound predators. So did ancient insect larvae, new research suggests.
Branching tunnels called Treptichnus embedded inside ancient rocks are among the oldest and most widespread preserved structures built by ancient animals, first appearing about 541 million years ago. The mazelike layout of these subterranean passageways was meant to frustrate unwanted intruders, paleontologist Patrick Getty of the University of Connecticut in Storrs proposed at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.