Apr 25, 2019
This 90-Million-Year-Old Crab Chimera Is a Beautiful Mess of an Animal
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Scientists have discovered a new species of crab that swam the seas 95 million years ago — and behold, it could be the next Pixar character.
The small, pocket-size crab, named Callichimaera perplexa, was different than its modern cousins.
This crab sported a tiny lobster-esque shell, with legs flattened like oars, and huge Pound Puppies-style peepers that protruded from its head — a trait that indicates the creature used its eyes actively for whatever it did, researchers said.
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