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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Ancient, Predatory "Lobster" is an Ancestor to All Modern Arthropods


More than 250 million years before the first dinosaur, the most fearsome killers on Earth may have been lobsters. Yawunik kootenayi, a common ancestor to spiders, shrimp and butterflies, was a predatory "lobster-like" creature that ruled the seas half a billion years ago.


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An interesting read via Gizmodo


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