A sophisticated imaging technique has allowed scientists to virtually peer inside a 10-million-year-old sea urchin, uncovering a treasure trove of hidden fossils. The international team of researchers from the United Kingdom, Spain and Germany, including Dr Imran Rahman from the University of Bristol, studied the exceptional specimen with the aid of state-of-the-art X-ray computed tomography […]
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pentecopterus, a giant sea scorpion
September 2nd, 2015 
Riffin Journal reference: James C. Lamsdell, Derek E. G. Briggs, Huaibao P. Liu, Brian J. Witzke, Robert M. McKay. The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2015; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0443-9 Eurypterids are a diverse group of chelicerates known from ~250 species with a […]
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Tags: giant sea scorpion, pentecopterus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society 
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