Thursday, March 1, 2007

New fossil unites three branches of life in the Cambrian

The newly described creature, termed Orthrozanclus reburrus, shares features with the ancestors of three major groups that are alive today: molluscs (such as clams and squid), annelids (segmented worms), and brachiopods, a type of shellfish that is only distantly related to molluscs.



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