Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated the seas 470 million years ago

Exeter UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2022

Discoveries at a major new fossil site in Morocco suggest giant arthropods – relatives of modern creatures including shrimps, insects and spiders – dominated the seas 470 million years ago.

Early evidence from the site at Taichoute, once undersea but now a desert, records numerous large “free-swimming” arthropods.

More research is needed to analyse these fragments, but based on previ
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