Thursday, November 5, 2020

Five-eyed mini monster?

 Amazing shrimp-like animal may have been an important ancestor of arthropods; spiders, insects and crustaceans

Kylinxia zhangi was a small creature, similar to a modern shrimp, that lived in the paleozoic oceans in the Cambrian period, about 520 million years ago. Kylinxia had five eyes, including two on eye-stalks, pinchers, a hard exoskeleton and many jointed legs. Its tail was like a shrimp's tail that it used to propel itself through the seas. The important thing about Kylinxia zhangi is that it combined the features of many different modern arthropods, including millipedes, scorpions and lobsters. This means it is a likely ancestor for all of those animals which are still with us today.






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