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University of Toronto/Royal Ontario Museum Scientists Discover Unusual ‘Tulip’ Creature

*Lived in the ocean more than 500-million years ago*

A bizarre creature that lived in the ocean more than 500-million years ago has emerged from the famous Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies.

Officially named Siphusauctum gregarium, fossils reveal a tulip-shaped creature that is about the length of a dinner knife (approximately 20 centimetres) and has a unique filter feeding system. (more…)

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