Joel Kontinen
Cambrian animals could be versatile and have astounding features. The features show how they went on with their life.
"A spiky, armor-plated walking tank with bulging eyes, a shield on its butt and a head like a Swiss army knife scuttled along the seafloor more than 500 million years ago, snapping up prey with a deadly pair of mouth pincers called chelicerae.
Researchers discovered astoundingly well-preserved fossils of these thumb-size predators in 2012, and a new study recently described the creatures, determined to be a previously unknown species now dubbed Mollisonia plenovenatrix. Scientists have found dozens of fossils of this species in recent years that include preserved soft tissue of the mouthparts, along with the animals' multiple legs and bulbous eyes."
The findings were published on September 11 in the journal Nature.
Cambrian creatures can be amazing . They show us that God is the originator of this all.
Source:
Weisberger, Mindy. 2019. Nightmare Creature Had Egg-Shaped Eyes, Swiss Army Knife Head and a Butt Shield. Live Science (11 September).
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