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Australian Creatures Are Celebrated for Their Oddness: Here’s Another

Australian creatures like the echidna and the koala are celebrated for their oddness. The fossil record shows that these oddities reach far back into prehistory, as illustrated in the form of a fossil horseshoe crab found in Tasmania that has been renamed by UNE paleontologist Dr. Russell Bicknell, saying: “The specimen from the Upper Permian ...

Troy Oakes

A fossil horseshoe crab.