Fossil Reveals the Origins of Claws

A 390 million year-old fossil of a long-extinct animal sheds new light on the evolution of scorpions and horseshoe crabs, and especially on how they developed their frontal claws. The perfectly-preserved specimen is the only one known of its species, and has been named Schinderhannes bartelsi... [ read more >> ]

A picture detailing the newly-found fossils

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Image credits: Steinmann Institute / University of Bonn

A picture detailing the newly-found fossils