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Weird, Extinct Animal Species Identified in First Such Finding in Over 100 Years

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Peering back hundreds of millions of years into the past can turn up some astonishing findings – as it has with the discovery of a second species of opabiniid, a soft-bodied arthropod with a segmented exoskeleton that lived on the seafloor during the Miaolingian (509-497 million years ago).   The original opadiniid, Opabinia regalis, was … Read more

Shocking Fossil Reveals Car-Sized Millipedes Scuttled on Earth 326 Million Years Ago

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If creepy crawlies make you uncomfortable, be glad you weren’t living in the Carboniferous period (around 100 million years before the dinosaurs arrived) in what is now Northumberland in the UK.   Scientists have made an astonishing discovery along this part of the coast of northeast England: a 326 million-year-old fossil, showing traces of the … Read more