500 Million-Year-Old Creature Unearthed
Ghevanni Madduma, Reporter
March 4, 2013
Filed under Science and Technology
“Since biologists rely heavily on organization of head appendages to classify arthropods groups, such as insects and spiders, our study provides a crucial reference point for reconstructing the evolutionary history a relationships of the most diverse a abundant animals on Earth,” said co-author Javier Ortega-Hernandez, an earth scientist from the University of Cambridge. “This is early as we can currently see into arthropod limb development.”
Scientists have recently unearthed an extraordinary preserved fossil nearly 520 million years ago. The fossilized animal is an arthropod named fuxhianhuiid, has grown primitive limbs on the under-side of its head, and it has been possible that it used those limbs for eating as it crept across the sea floor. The fuxhianhuiid lived nearly 50 million years ago before animals first appeared from the sea to the land, during the early parts of the Cambrian explosion.
When Ortega-Hernandez and his colleagues began excavating in a fossil-rich region southwest of China, they unearthed several specimens of fuxhianhuiid.
“These fossils are our best window to see the most primitive state of animals as we know them – including us,” Ortega-Hernandez said in a statement. “Before that there is no clear indication in the fossil record of whether something was an animal or plant – but we are still filling in the details, of which is an important one.”
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I was very suprised to learn that scientist had discovered that animal so very old I heard that’s very rare , so cool to learn
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That thing looks scary!
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What does the actual fossil look like? That picture must not be the organism. It would’ve evolved centuries– millenia ago.
I JUST RE-READ IT!!!
The preserved remains COULD’NT be that!
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i really appreciated learning about how they identified the fuxhianhuiid.
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I found the article to be interesting. I was surprised to learn that something that old could be found after that much time.
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the picture kind of scared me
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I’m surprised that the fossils weren’t broken after all those years. I would never think that we would find something so rare and cool.
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I found that article to be very interesting and I thought that it was very important information.
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This article was very interesting. I had no idea that there was an animal that old. You used good facts.
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This was interesting. i learned alot about the fuxhianhuiid!
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This is the coolest thing next to the newest iPad! Look at Fuxhianhuiid! It’s just too cool!
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I was surprised to find out that that this is 520 million years old and that scientists were able to find it
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creepy and fascinating for a creature that old to be fossilized even before dinaraurs possibley?
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