Found: Living Descendants Of 'Hallucigenia'--The Weirdest Fossil - Forbes
Aug 18, 2014 · A study of Hallucigenia sparsa’s claws, reported in the advance online edition of Nature, suggests that it is related to present-day velvet worms (onychophorans) found in the world’s tropical ...
Hallucigenia - Wikipedia
Hallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian aged fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada and China, and from isolated spines around the world. [4] The generic name reflects the type species ' unusual appearance and eccentric history of study; when it was erected as a genus, H. sparsa was reconstructed as an enigmatic ...
Misunderstood worm-like fossil finds its place in the Tree of Life
While Hallucigenia had been suspected to be an ancestor of velvet worms, definitive characteristics linking them together had been hard to come by, and their claws had never been studied in detail. Through analysing both the prehistoric and living creatures, the researchers found that claws were the connection joining them together.
The world’s weirdest creature finds descendants in cuddly velvet …
Aug 17, 2014 · A bizarre 500-million-year-old “worm with legs” has finally found its rightful place on the evolutionary tree of life. Fossils of Hallucigenia look so odd that scientists couldn’t make head or...
[PDF] Phylogeny of Hallucigenia - Semantic Scholar
Hallucigenia is an extinct genus from the lower-middle Cambrian. A small worm-like organism with dorsal spines, Hallucigenia is rare in fossil history, and its identity and morphology have often been confounded. Since its original discovery in the Burgess Shale by Walcott, Hallucigenia has since become an iconic fossil.
This Weird, 500 Million-Year-Old Spiky Worm With Legs Actually …
Aug 18, 2014 · That ancient worm's descendents are the velvet worms, a group of animals that live in tropical forests. Researchers magnified fossilized Hallucigenia specimens 1,000 times to reveal that their...
Hallucigenia’s head and the pharyngeal armature of early …
Jun 24, 2015 · Here we redescribe the 508-million-year-old stem-group onychophoran Hallucigenia sparsa 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 from the mid-Cambrian Burgess Shale. We document an elongate head with a pair of simple eyes,...
Newly-discovered ‘ring of teeth’ helps determine what common ancestor ...
Researchers from the University of Cambridge, the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto have found that the creature, known as Hallucigenia due to its strange appearance, had a throat lined with needle-like teeth, a previously unidentified feature which could help connect the dots between it, modern velvet worms and arthropods ...
Hallucigenia: Paleontologists Reconstruct Cambrian Worm-Like …
Jun 24, 2015 · Paleontologists from the University of Toronto and the University of Cambridge, UK, have found that a weird creature from 505 million years ago, known as Hallucigenia due to its strange appearance, had a throat lined with needle-like teeth – a previously unidentified feature which could help connect the dots between it, modern velvet worms ...
Hallucigenia - creature of the Cambrian Explosion - Paleozoo
Long thought to have no living descendants, Hallucigenia is now considered part of the lobopodian worm group - indirectly related to modern velvet worms - though its exact phylogeny is still being debated.