500-Million-Year-Old 'Squishy' Worm Had Spiky Armor

Monday, June 29, 2015 - 14:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A spiky, wormlike creature with 30 legs — 18 clawed rear legs and 12 featherlike front legs that likely helped it filter food from the water — once lived in the ancient oceans of the early Cambrian period, about 518 million years ago, a new study finds.

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