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The diets of half-a-billion-year-old species

Simplifying Complexity

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Exploring Ancient Food Webs and Ecological Relationships

This chapter recounts a chance meeting with a notable paleobiologist at a conference, sparking an exploration into ancient food webs from half a billion years ago. The discussion reveals the complexities of reconstructing early multicellular ecosystems and leads to the formation of a dedicated working group to further study these interactions.

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