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  1. 500-million-year-old spider relative has claws where it shouldn’t

    The fossil was completely unremarkable. That’s what Harvard University paleontologist Rudy Lerosey-Aubril initially thought while examining an arthropod…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AU #Australia #Cambrianperiod #claws #horseshoecrabs #Lerosey-Aubril #RudyLerosey-Aubril #Science
    newsbeep.com/au/580565/

  2. 500-million-year-old spider relative has claws where it shouldn’t

    The fossil was completely unremarkable. That’s what Harvard University paleontologist Rudy Lerosey-Aubril initially thought while examining an arthropod…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AU #Australia #Cambrianperiod #claws #horseshoecrabs #Lerosey-Aubril #RudyLerosey-Aubril #Science
    newsbeep.com/au/580565/

  3. Labiostria Westropi may be common in the McKay group but I think it has very lovely spines long along its edges, its like its in a hurry to get somewhere... I suppose in the Cambrian period there were a lot of niches still to rush into.

    Here is a full specimen with its cheeks.

    #fossils #trilobites #trilobite #cambrian #cambrianperiod