“500 million years ago, this critter had a really bad day
[...] the blob is immediately recognizable as #Sidneyia_inexpectans, an ancient species of #arthropod that would have looked like a cross between a jumbo shrimp and a sowbug. Dr. Caron points out the traces of feather-like appendages. Then he tells me exactly what it was doing the moment it died.”
Very lively and entertaining history of the #cambrian fauna.
▻http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/500-million-years-ago-this-critter-had-a-bad-day/article22984858