Image of the Day: Ancient Arthropod
Fossils of a 2-meter-long, 480-million-year-old, filter-feeding ancestor of insects and crustaceans, thought to be the one of the largest of its kind, were recently found in Morocco.
ARTOFFACT, MARIANNE COLLINS
(See “Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by agiant filter-feeder with paired flaps,” Nature, 2015.)
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