Dr. Corentin Loron

So I think this is a sort of question that can nobody ask and answer with those new type of techniques and new type of approaches, rather than just trying to show on it somewhere.

I think we would learn more about it by exploring rather than say, okay, that's a fungi, let's even oats, but we leave it there.

And then we know we do things that fungi do.

And that's all.

And I think this could be a bit limiting.

It's probably one of the many reasons why we still don't know what it is.

We might have been too focused on placing it somewhere rather than actually studying every single bit of information from it.

Right.

Yeah, I think it's a very good point.

And I think coming into having this sort of bottom-up approach, like, as you say, for example, modeling is one aspect you can do.

Obviously, you can say we need more fossils.

We need more fossils.

If we can find fossils, you know, preserve where the organism was living, that would be perfect.

Sometimes this is very rare, and this hasn't happened for prototaxitis.

But this is the sort of thing, modeling is a thing, looking at the signal that can be preserved within it.

This is something that is done from a couple of decades only now, so it's really something that comes in handy now.

Looking with new methods of

Microscopy, for example, things that can reconstruct the 3D structure itself.

So all of this is accessible now and allow us to gather any sort of information we can have.

And then the inference come from looking at, you know, you can look at in ecology, those things would have a function in an ecosystem.