Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans

• Published in: Current Biology
• Main Authors: Gutarra, Susana, Mitchell, Emily G, Dunn, Frances S, Gibson, Brandt M, Racicot, Rachel A, Darroch, Simon AF, Rahman, Imran
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2024
• Subjects: ediacaran; marine animal forests; hydrodynamics; computational fluid dynamics; oxygenation; palaeoecology; evolution; Mistaken Point; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10141/623097; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.059

The rise of animals across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition marked a step-change in the history of life, from a microbially dominated world to the complex macroscopic biosphere we see today.1,2,3 While the importance of bioturbation and swimming in altering the structure and function of Earth syste...