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"Scissor-handed" bug named after Johnny Depp

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    Ziphius
    Registered Users Posts: 714 ✭✭✭Ziphius


    'I am also a Depp fan and what better way to honour the man than to immortalise him as an ancient creature that once roamed the sea?'

    :D


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    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that.


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,408 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Kooteninchela deppi is helping researchers piece together more information about life on Earth during the Cambrian period, which happened more than 1.9million years ago and was when nearly all modern animal types emerged.

    Technically speaking it was more than 1.9million years ago


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    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Kind of like saying the Jurassic was more than a week ago...


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    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,735 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    That DM article is so riddled with inaccuracies that I don't know where to start.:rolleyes:

    As for this new fossil critter - I wonder if it's closer to the trilobites or to the anomalocarids? It's looks a bit like the strange Obapinia but much more arthropod like - "missing link" perhaps?


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