About half a billion years ago during the Cambrian period , in the early old age of multicellular life on Earth , there existed a creature out of our nightmares . A scaly arthropod , distantly concern to today ’s lobsters and spiders , Fuxianhuia crawled along the ocean floor with those mad - looking tentacle legs . Those limb may also have been involved in eating .
The source of a new paper in Nature believe that Fuxianhuia may have been one of the first creatures to grow legs , and it had a lot of them . Those big front legs are just the start — it also had a net ton of hind legs that almost await centipede - like . The fossil described in this paper offer our first horizon of the peg of the wight .
Here is what most fogy of this arthropod look like — you’re able to see the stunned carapace but not the feeding tentacle . Last year , this fossil and a few othershelped scientists to identify this creature as one of the first that may have had a brain , or a complex nervous organisation that extend beyond its drumhead .
Read the full scientific articlein Nature .
Top image via Yie Jang ; second via Nature ; third via Xiaoya Ma
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