Strange fossil defies grouping

[Orangutan]

A strange fossil creature from the early Cambrian Period is baffling scientists because it does not fit neatly into any existing animal groups.

LINK TO BBC STORY

But I think I know what it is.....

RODS!

LOL!

Uh maybe I shouldn't suggest things like that, it'll just give them ideas!


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Link/spelling Edits..

 

[Soapy Sam]

Poor Stephen J. Gould.

All that sound research. All those wonderful columns.
And he is going to be remembered for that "Wonderful Life" nonsense.

The man deserves better.

 

[Orangutan]

Well ok.

I didn't understand what your post had to do with the thread, but here's a link I found ( for others as confused as I ).

http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins...awkins/Work/Reviews/1990-02-25wonderful.shtml

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Edit to add, thanks for enlightening me

 

[Soapy Sam]

OOK! Sorry, I should have linked to that myself, or one of Conway Morris'later rebuttals.

 

[Correa Neto]

Nonsense. Have you seen the pic of the fossil?

That´s just a regular mollusk smashed by somebody´s foot while the mud was still wet. Just like that trilobite underneath a footprint.

How do you know its 500+my old?

 

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Maybe it's a relative of anomalocaris canadensis(look it up)?
They look similar to me.