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Ancient creature from 425million years ago revealed for first time in new 3D image

A 3D computer mode of a primitive Drakozoon has been created from the only known fossilised specimen of the creature.

Drakozoon lived in the ocean during the Silurian Period, 444 to 416 million years ago, and today's model hints at how it lived. The research reveals that Drakozoon was a cone-shaped creature with a hood and it probably had a leathery exterior skin.

It was approximately 3mm long, and used filament-bearing tentacles to catch and eat organic particles in seawater. It pulled its hood down over its body for protection against predators, pulling it back again to expose its tentacles when danger passed.

Dr Mark Sutton, from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, says: 'We think this tiny blob of jelly survived by clinging onto rocks and hard shelled creatures, making a living by plucking microscopic morsels out of seawater.

'By looking at this primitive creature, we also get one tantalising step closer to understanding what the earliest creatures on Earth looked like.'

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