<i>Tamisiocaris borealis</i> (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

<i>Tamisiocaris borealis</i>

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This is an artists' reconstruction of Tamisiocaris borealis, an anomalocarid that lived 520 million years ago during the Early Cambrian. A new study of Tamisiocaris borealis fossils discovered in northern Greenland has found that these ancient marine animals used bizarre facial appendages to filter food from the ocean. The research, led by the University of Bristol, UK, is published this week in Nature.

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Painting by Rob Nicholls, Palaeocreations.

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Image is for single use only to illustrate stories about the <i>Nature</i> paper 'A suspension feeding anomalocarid from the early Cambrian' by Jakob Vinther et al, and is not to be archived. The image must be credited © Rob Nicholls, Palaeocreations.

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