Paleontologists recently announced the discovery of an 'exceptionally well preserved' ancient animal near the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe in southern Ontario, Canada, in a stone quarry that is such a hotbed for marine fossils that scientists have du
Paleontologists recently announced the discovery of an"exceptionally well preserved" ancient animal near the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe in southern Ontario, Canada, in a stone quarry that is such a hotbed for marine fossils that scientists have dubbed the area"Paleo Pompeii.
"We didn't expect to find a soft-bodied species at this site," said lead study author Joseph Moysiuk, a doctoral candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto and a researcher at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum .bones and shells. However, soft-tissue preservation is very rare, and there are only a few sites around the world where soft-bodied organisms have been found," Moysiuk told Live Science.
Measuring 2 inches – just shy of an index finger's length and able to fit in the palm of a hand – the specimen features an ornate head shield that contains two curved horns covered in feather-like spines. The animal's segmented body resembles that of other arthropods, such as insects and spiders, and contains multiple sets of segmented limbs – including one very unusual pair.
"Underneath the head, there is this amazing pair of limbs that are extremely long and have foot-like projections at the terminal ends, which we think it most likely used to stilt its way across the seafloor," Moysiuk said."It also appears to be blind, since it doesn't have any eyes at all."
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