Bizarre worm solves evolutionary mystery

[Eldorado]

"A half-a-billion years old fossil species of marine animal sheds light on how the anatomies of the two main types of an animal group called the hemichordates are related, and provides new evidence in the historical debate among zoologists.

"The fossils are over half-a-billion years old and were discovered at a Burgess Shale site in the Canadian Rockies."

Full Science Daily article: Link

Cambrian Tentaculate Worms and the Origin of the Hemichordate Body Plan: Cell Press

Edited August 27, 2020 by Eldorado

[docyabut2]

So many different forms are weird.:)