Gigantic Devonian Monster Worm Discovered

[Oxytropidoceras]

400 million year old gigantic extinct monster

worm discovered in Canadian museum

University of Bristol, February 21, 2017

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170221095643.htm

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-million-year-gigantic-extinct-monster.html

http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2017/february/giant-worm-fossil-.html

 

Mats E. Eriksson, Luke A. Parry, and David M. Rudkin,

2017, Earth’s oldest ‘Bobbit worm’ – gigantism in a

Devonian eunicidan polychaete. Scientific Reports,

2017; 7: 43061 DOI: 10.1038/srep43061

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep43061

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.