Freaky Claw-Headed Fossil Could Explain Scorpion Origins
source: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/freakarthropod.html
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If you think scorpions are scary, just take a look at this guy.
Named Schinderhannes bartelsi, it was found in fossilized form in a German quarry, and dates to 390 million years ago.
Sbartelsi2 That's about 100 million years after the extinction of the last known animal to sport what's technically known as a "great appendage" — a giant claw growing out of its head.
But there it is, right between S. bartelsi's eyes: a great appendage.
If great appendage-bearing creatures survived 100 million years longer than we realized, then maybe they didn't die out.
Named Schinderhannes bartelsi, it was found in fossilized form in a German quarry, and dates to 390 million years ago.
Sbartelsi2 That's about 100 million years after the extinction of the last known animal to sport what's technically known as a "great appendage" — a giant claw growing out of its head.
But there it is, right between S. bartelsi's eyes: a great appendage.
If great appendage-bearing creatures survived 100 million years longer than we realized, then maybe they didn't die out.
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