Dickinsonia was a bilateral worm That possessed a soft body, yet firm In Precambrian seas It became quite the tease Not knowing the first thing about germs.
An ammonite in the Cretaceous ocean Was filled with the strongest emotion Her exquisite suture Preserved in the future But of extinctions, she had absolutely no notion.
I am an ichnologist, someone who studies the traces and trace fossils left by life: tracks, trails, burrows, and other indirect signs of behavior. Modern and ancient traces alike interest me, as these lend insights on how behavior has changed through time (or not).