Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Ouch! U of T paleontologists identify 508-million-year-old sea creature with can opener-like pincers

Paleontologists at the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have uncovered a new fossil species that sheds light on the origin of mandibulates, the most abundant and diverse group of organisms on Earth, to which belong familiar animals such as flies, ants, crayfish and centipedes.

Ouch! U of T paleontologists identify 508-million-year-old sea creature with can opener-like pincers







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