Were legs a quirk of genetic mutation rather than an evolutionary inevitability?
- Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Palaeontology, Durham University
A microscopic set of teeth helped scientists realise they had been looking at fossils of Hallucigenia back to front.
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 tail of…
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