#prehistoric worm

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There has been a lot of big and dinosaur lately, but I thought it would be interesting to once again go to the Cambrian period, 508 million years ago. Ottoia was a worm that scavenged and hunted on mollusc-like animals in the ocean during this time. Seriously, I just thought this was interesting just by its appearance alone. It would be interesting if someone made this into a Pokémon Image source: https://prehistopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Ottoia?file=C5K-1YPUYAAF0qU.jpg

Edit: The artwork was made by Nobu Tamura: https://twitter.com/paleofan?s=20

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Prehistoric worm Oesia built tube-like “houses” on sea floor

Prehistoric worm #Oesia built tube-like “houses” on sea floor @Cambridge_Uni @UofT @ROMtoronto

News Hour:

A new study into an ancient sea worm called Oesia offers clues about a common ancestor which they shared with vertebrates, including humans, while also showing that the worms inhabited tube-like “dwellings” on the sea bed.

The fossilised remnants of tube-like “dwellings” which housed a primitive type of prehistoric sea worm on the ocean floor have been identified in a new study.

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