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Researchers have identified a small marine predator that once patrolled the ocean floor and grabbed its prey with 50 spines deployed from its head as a brand new genus and species.

They identified the four-inch long creature, named Capinatator praetermissus, based on 50 specimens from the fossil-rich Burgess Shale in British Columbia.

“This is the most significant fossil discovery of this group of animals yet made,” says Derek Briggs, professor of geology and geophysics, curator at the Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History, and lead author of a paper about the discovery, which appears in Current Biology.

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It occurs to me this isn’t made immediately clear and I’ve seen this article shared around like “prehistoric animals are SO WEIRD!!!!”

But, these still exist. This is a newly recognized, extinct genus of them, but it’s only slightly different from its modern siblings:

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And they have cute little beady eyes:

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They can still get almost five inches long! I’ve always wanted to see one.

Source: futurity.org
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