https://m.jpost.com/science/article-715147/
The Saccorhytus looks somewhat like a spikey jelly bean with pursed lips and is described by the University of Bristol as “resembling an angry Minion.”
https://m.jpost.com/science/article-715147/
The Saccorhytus looks somewhat like a spikey jelly bean with pursed lips and is described by the University of Bristol as “resembling an angry Minion.”
Ah, so the key here is that the fossil record is probably more complete than I’d expect.
A few years I went down the rabbit hole of geology and palaeontology, and the thing I had trouble wrapping my head around was the incomprehensibly long time scales involved, and how there’s a massive amount of stuff from different eras, but timescales that long have a tendancy of homogenizing the evidence out of existence because there’s just so much stuff smushed together.
Yeah, the scale is just so massive compared to our lifetimes and the history of humanity. I get that feeling to with astronomy, where distances are just so massive and our planet such an insignificant tiny wet rock.