Three-eyed distant relative of insects and #crustaceans reveals details of early animal evolution https://phys.org/news/2023-08-three-eyed-distant-insects-crustaceans-reveals.html

The early #Cambrian #Kylinxia zhangi and #evolution of the #arthropod head https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01065-5

"The size of a large #shrimp, its surprising features include three eyes on the head and a pair of fearsome limbs presumably used to catch prey... its head is composed of six segments, as in, e.g., #insects."

Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals details of early animal evolution

A team from the University of Leicester, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology and the Institute of Paleontology at Yunnan University, Chengjiang Fossil Museum, and the Natural History Museum in London, have redescribed a unique fossil animal from rocks nearly 520 million years old that fills in a gap in our understanding of the evolution of animals known as arthropods.

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