Meet the 425-million-year-old 'bottle brush' beastie
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 08:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Palaeobiologists at Oxford University have discovered a new fossil arthropod, christened Enalikter aphson, in 425-million-year-old rocks in Herefordshire. It belongs to an extinct group of marine-dwelling 'short-great-appendage' arthropods, Megacheira, defined by their claw-like front limbs.