Science
A weird, ancient shrimp has changed scientist’s understanding of evolution – Inverse
Named for a mythological Chinese chimera, Kylinxia zhangi, a newly described fossilized arthropod, possesses some of the weirdest bits of other early arthropods….

During the Cambrian period
, the worlds oceans were teeming with strange, swimming, segmented creatures.
Over the course of millions of years, these elongated, millipede-like animals would eventually evolve to become modern arthropods: crustaceans like crabs, arachnids like scorpions, and insects like bees and ants.
But some 500 million years ago, these aquatic Cambrian beasts were rather more experimental when it came to their physical traits and body plans than their more familiar descendants….
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