And if you're like me, you're wondering, what is a sea squirt?īARBER: (Laughter) Yeah, they're a type of small, tube-shaped creature. So recently, researchers at Harvard published a paper in Nature Communications detailing a newly identified, super old, very well-preserved species of sea squirt. Researchers have been studying the fossil of something you called a sea squirt.īARBER: Yeah. So give us a tease.īARBER: So we've got a story about a half-a-billion-year-old sea squirt that might have us rethink when vertebrates came about.īRUMFIEL: A way to use mosquitoes to fight malaria and a Copper Age Spanish leader.įLORIDO: OK. FLORIDO: OK, so as usual, you have brought us three stories this week of science in the news.
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