Thursday 27 April 2017

Paleontologists identify new 507-million-year-old sea creature with can opener-like pincers


Discovery points to origin of millipedes, crabs and insects among other species

Date: April 26, 2017
Source: University of Toronto

Paleontologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) 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. The finding was announced in a study published today in Nature.

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