Andreas Koutsodendris/Heidelberg University
- Fabian Weston makes videos of tiny organisms filmed under a microscope.
- One of his videos provided the missing piece to link 400-year-old fossils with living euglenoids.
- Euglenoids may be some of the earliest eukaryotes, the domain that includes plants and animals.
Sometimes, it really does help to Google it. Especially when you're a stumped scientist who's exhausted all other angles.
That's what one research team did after all else had failed. And it helped them solve a scientific mystery that's confused biologists for decades.