Opabinia regalis, from the Burgess Shale, replica T-RexVery Rare Cast of this Burgess Shale Specimen. Cambrian Age, BC, Canada. This creature with its five eyes is a strange looking one indeed. Wielding a long flexible proboscis tipped with grasping spines, its reconstructed image was greeted with laughter as a pretty good joke when first presented at a scientific meeting in 1972. The strange looking reconstruction was soon confirmed, and this creature remains one of the oddities of the Burgess Shale
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it is currently a question of debate as to whether members of Protodonata and the earliest Odonata had aquatic larvae
living mainly in swampy areas
Mississippian System of Classification
and is thought to have had a horny beak that was used for biting off pieces of vegetation
Things That Are No Supposed to Exist
The full length of the crocodile would have been between 12 and 15 feet long
It had an arboreal lifestyle
meat-eating theropod
All That Remains chronicles the intriguing findings of Bob Pyle who has spent three decades exploring ancient sites in the mountain state and around the world
The distribution of Glossopteris across several
The fossil is of a juvenile female