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“Completely Different” – Discovery of Strange 514-Million-Year-Old Slug Rewrites Our Understanding of Sea Creatures


The newly discovered fossil of Shishania aculeata, an early mollusk without a shell but covered in protective spines, offers new insights into molluscan evolution, indicating a primitive, slug-like form during the Cambrian period. Researchers have discovered a new species of mollusk that lived 50

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