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Paleontologist Discovers First Known Silurian Horseshoe Crab
2025-08-29
Horseshoe crabs are an ancient lineage with an evolutionary history stretching back 450 million years (Ordovician period) and are generally considered to be examples of ‘living fossils.’ A paleontologist from West Virginia University has described a new genus and species of true horseshoe crab from a Silurian-age specimen unearthed inContinue Reading
