Fossil of <i>Tamisiocaris borealis</i> (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Fossil of <i>Tamisiocaris borealis</i>

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This is one of the fossil feeding appendages of Tamisiocaris borealis, an anomalocarid that lived 520 million years ago during the Early Cambrian. A new study of Tamisiocaris fossils discovered in northern Greenland has found that these ancient marine animals used bizarre facial appendages to filter food from the ocean. The research, led by the University of Bristol, UK, is published this week in Nature.

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Jakob Vinther, University of Bristol

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Image is for single use only to illustrate stories about the <i>Nature</i> paper 'A suspension feeding anomalocarid from the early Cambrian' by Jakob Vinther et al, and is not to be archived. The image must be credited © Jakob Vinther, University of Bristol

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