The odd headline of the hour. From our correspondents at National Geographic:
Fossils of an ancient, spiny creature dubbed a “walking cactus” have been found in China, a new study says.
The 2.4-inch-long (6-centimeter-long) Diania cactiformis
had a worm-like body and ten pairs of armored and likely jointed legs.
It would have lived about 500 million years ago during a period of rapid
evolution called the Cambrian explosion.
You can read the rest – and see an artist’s recreation of this bizarre creature – here.
