British scientists reproduce ancient creatures more than 500 million years

Canadian and British scientists recreated a species of creatures more than 500 million years ago, worms-like but with sharp spines, legs, eyes and teeth, based on fossil research.

Recreate ancient creatures more than 500 million years

Hallucigenia sparsa is a small creature that is less than two centimeters in length and is only thicker than a hair. Scientists have described this mysterious creature before, but because its head and tail are similar, they have not yet identified the detailed characteristics.

According to the British University of Cambridge team, the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto in Canada , creatures with large spikes stick out from the thin tube body, while on the opposite side, parts Claws with claws growing around.

Hallucigenia sparsa is a common ancestor of velvet worms and is a member of ecdysozoan animals (including arthropods, velvet worms, water bears). IB Times said that since the Cambrian boom, the period when most of the main animal groups first appeared on Earth. They were first identified in the 1970s.