Saturday 7 December 2019

The World’s Oldest Comma Shrimp Looks Like Today’s Shrimp

Image courtesy of Javier Luque. Fair Use Doctrine





Joel Kontinen

"We are amazed by how similar Eobodotria muisca is to today's species," said Yale paleontologist Javier Luque, lead author of the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

This means that no evolution has occurred in 90 million years- The oldest modern looking shrimp have 160 million Darwin years behind them and even a 300.million tear old shrimp is a living fossil.

Source.

Shelton, Jim. 2019. World's oldest comma shrimp was way ahead of the curve. Phys.org (27 November).