Comments on: Nice Legs http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/06/28/nice-legs/ A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 By: Solius http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/06/28/nice-legs/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:06:10 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=685#comment-59 The lowly(to some) lingulid brachiopods have changed little since the Cambrian. If nothing else, the little buggers are persistent.

]]> By: Reed http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/06/28/nice-legs/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:56:22 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=685#comment-58 Wikipedia pushes back the harvestmen even further to the Devonian…

“Well-preserved fossils have been found in the 400-million year old Rhynie cherts of Scotland, which look surprisingly modern, indicating that the basic structure of the harvestmen has not changed much since then.”

Who’d have guessed that our little friends are living fossils?!

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