Posted on 09/05/2019 2:09:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The team of scientists found the Yilingia spiciformis, which translates to "spiky Yiling bug," preserved in layers of rock near the Chinese city of Yiling. It resembled a millipede up to 10 inches in length, broken into 50 segments across its short body.
The spiky Yiling bug is one of the earliest bilaterians—that is, animals with bilateral symmetry, like humans—with segmented bodies and movement. They laid the groundwork for larger animals to move, think and impact their environment, he said.
Scientists always assumed segmented bilaterians evolved sometime between 635 million and 539 million years ago, but they'd never found evidence to back their claims. The fossilized trails provide a timeline for the Cambrian revolution, the "explosion" of life 540 million years ago that included many major animal groups that exist on Earth today.
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Haha-I was just thinking the same thing-I’m keeping my not-mom jeans and boots to the end...
Dem’s go back that far?
I award you the ENTIRE interwebz for that post!! I am LOL IRL.
Absoulutely! :)
That's funny.
This made me laugh.
A common theme in Chinese TV action/fantasy dramas is some supposedly extinct underground insect that is inadvertently uncovered by archaeologists/tomb raiders/construction workers and then proceeds to wreak havoc on the local population, either because they are poisonous, or radioactive, or emit some sort of electricity or force field. They generally glow in real cool colors so that’s how you know they are dangerous.
I am betting that she is one of those little old ladies who loves doilies. Probably knits them while she is ruling on important issues. Doilies on the table, counters, bathroom sink, as gloves for her hands....
Bernie is a direct descendant.
“A 550-million-year-old worm was one of the first animals to move and make decisions...,”
The tracks indicate the animal was moving toward or away from something. And the ability for animals to move, and move with purpose, transformed the Earth, study author and Virginia Tech geochemist Shuhai Xiao said.
I can easily be sure that if the darn thing moved, it had to be toward or from something whether it knew it or not. The article didn’t say it had a brain or a nervous system. And without those, it couldn’t make a decision. Some people can read War and Peace and get nothing out of it but others can read the back of an aspirin bottle and see the world for what it is. I guess they couldn’t blame Trump on this one and it was a slow day.
rwood
No more rhymes and it mean it! “Anybody want a peanut?”
:)
Is that a 500 million year old bilaterian?
When I was in china you see insects like this in bundles dehydrated that were are 14-16” long sold in markets under the city streets and buildings. They eat some weird stuff over that way.
When I was in china you see insects like this in bundles dehydrated that were are 14-16” long sold in markets under the city streets and buildings. They eat some weird stuff over that way.
*ping*
Not a bug. Not even an insect.
Poor Hemiptera: so often slandered.
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