Canada discovered rare earthworm fossils
Canadian paleontologists recently learned that, for more than a decade, they have owned a fossil of hard-shelled worms that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.
Managers at the Ontario Royal Museum only discovered their "treasure" when a similar worm fossil was found at Morocco.
The excavation of hard-shell worm fossils belonging to the Machaeridian family in Canada is also accidental.
An ancient earthworm fossil found in the United States
Since the early 90s of the last century, the construction of the world exchange center building in the capital Ottawa has been conducted and an amateur fossil collector has found the ancient hard-shell worm fossil. on a large pile of rock from the foundation excavation.
A year later, the collector handed back the worm fossil to a prestigious Canadian paleontologist.
However, this fossil was then unnoticed and has been in the museum's storage for more than 10 years.
By the time another fossil of the hard-shell worm was discovered in a remote area of Marocco and published, Canadian scientists could see the connection between these fossils.
Machaeridian hard shell worm is thought to have appeared 480 million years ago and extinct about 250 million years ago.
According to scientists, the ancestors of hard-shelled worms living in the ocean are soft-bodied species, but due to being chased by animals such as octopus and squid, they have evolved into hard shells for self-defense.
Millions of years ago, the Canadian capital of Ottawa was on the sea floor, so the possibility of hard-shelled worms appeared here was completely natural.
- Repeatedly discovered dinosaur fossils in Canada
- Discovered two new earthworms in Kerala
- Discover the oldest animal fossils
- Discover rare fossils of the Ice Age bear and wolf-like predator
- Recorded a rare mascot in Canada
- Detection of extremely rare dinosaur fossils in the UK
- Very rare fossils of gibbons
- Fossils discovered 5 crocodile species 100 million years
- The giant snake-like earthworm was discovered in Ecuador
- New dinosaur fossils in Canada
- Australia found fossils tens of millions of years old
- Successful production of earthworm robots: Works similar to real worms