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.

The Scientist Staff

Mar 12, 2015 | 1 min read

ARTOFFACT, MARIANNE COLLINS

(See “Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by agiant filter-feeder with paired flaps,” Nature, 2015.)

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