Mystery Solved? 160-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Origins of Thorny-Headed Worms

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Overall View of Juracanthocephalus, Alongside an Artistic Reconstruction, and a Comparison With a Modern Acanthocephalan WormThe Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, resolving debates about their origins and anatomy. A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a fossil acanthocephalan named Juracanthocephalus in the 160-million-year-old Daohugou Biota in Inner Mongolia, China. The [...]
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