Adam Maloof
Assistant Professor of Geosciences
Princeton University
Photo: Courtesy of Adam Maloof (2010)
This video is Part 1 of an interview with Adam Maloof, assistant professor of geosciences, on recent fossil findings by Princeton University scientists that could be evidence of the oldest animals ever found.
Video: Kitta MacPherson (2010)
Princeton University Office of Communications
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This video is Part 2 of an interview with Adam Maloof, assistant professor of geosciences, on recent fossil findings by Princeton University scientists that could be evidence of the oldest animals ever found.
Video: Kitta MacPherson (2010)
Princeton University Office of Communications
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This video is Part 3 of an interview with Adam Maloof, assistant professor of geosciences, on recent fossil findings by Princeton University scientists that could be evidence of the oldest animals ever found.
Video: Kitta MacPherson (2010)
Princeton University Office of Communications
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This video shows the development of three-dimensional digital models to study fossils that may be evidence of the earliest living animals. The modeling by Situ Studio, a Brooklyn-based design studio and digital fabrication firm, made it possible to analyze fossils that could not be excavated from the surrounding rock using conventional techniques nor imaged using X-ray scanning techniques.
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Princeton geoscientist Adam Maloof holds a rock from South Australia that may contain the oldest fossils of animal bodies ever discovered. The fossils, visible here as red shapes, suggest that sponge-like animals were in existence about 650 million years ago.
Photo: Courtesy of Adam Maloof
A Princeton-led team of researchers, in conjunction with experts at Situ Studio, used a serial grinding and imaging process to analyze hundreds of slices through a single fossil. Special computer techniques were then used to create a digital reconstruction of the specimen, producing a three-dimensional model of the roughly 650 million-year-old creature.
Image: Courtesy of Maloof lab/Situ Studio
Laura Poppick, at left, and Blake Dyer, members of the research group of Princeton geoscientist Adam Maloof, measure a stratigraphic section through the Trezona Formation at Trezona Bore, West Central Flinders, South Australia, which is the area where sponge fossils were found that could be the oldest animal bodies ever discovered.
Photo: Adam Maloof