Carl Zimmer: Scientists have been puzzling over a fossil called Pikaia for decades. Is this 508-million-year-old creature our pre-vertebrate cousin? Now researchers say the confusion came from how we looked it it. We've had Pikaia upside down the whole time. 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/s...

Scientists have been puzzling over a fossil called Pikaia for decades. Is this 508-million-year-old creature our pre-vertebrate cousin? Now researchers say the confusion came from how we looked it it. We've had Pikaia upside down the whole time. 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/s...

Was This Sea Creature Our Ancestor? Scientists Turn a Famous Fossil on its Head.www.nytimes.com Researchers have long assumed that a tube in the famous Pikaia fossil ran along the animal’s back. But a new study turned the fossil upside-side down.

first Hallucigenia, now this... evolve some "this way up" arrows already, guys

happened with Essexella even in the Carboniferous! completely non-user-friendly design.

"Freaky Beasts" is my new band name

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