Mud Dragon (IMAGE)

Virginia Tech

Mud Dragon

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Details of the Eokinorhynchus rarus fossil, only a few millimeters in length, can be seen in this electron microscopic image. More than 530 million years old, the ancient worm was found in South China by researchers associated with Virginia Tech and is closely related to the ancestor of modern animal phylum kinorhyncha.

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