Walking Cactus Found in China!
by An ancient twenty legged creatures was discovered in China.
Roughly 520 million years ago, when life forms exceeded any imagintaton, nature created creatures in shapes never seen before or since.
The newest fossil discovery from Jianni Liu in China. She calls it “the walking cactus.” It’s not a plant but a live animal. It has no eyes and its armor-plated is covered in thorns, attached to a stomach. Jianni Liu thinks it’s a lobopodian, a group of animals described as “worms with legs.” Lobopodians are one of the strangest creatures that have ever lived. Many fossils of them appear in the rocks around Chengjiang, China.
The walking cactus’s unusual limbs strengthen the theory that modern arthropods evolved from lobopodians, the study authors say.
Liu, who found about 30 fossil specimens of the walking cactus, also has some hypotheses for how the creature hunted.
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Post CommentUma Shankari
On March 5, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Very interesting.
youthinksokiddo
On March 8, 2011 at 4:35 pm
what a cool creature, kinda scary looking.
clay hurtubise
On March 23, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Sorry, I forgot to close the gate…
Thanks,
Clay