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95 million-year-old crab species

April 29 , 2019 1909 days 759 0
  • Alberta University palaeontologists have discovered 95 million-year-old coin-sized ‘cartoon-eyed’ crab species called Callichimaeraperplexa.
  • It is believed that the crab is from mid-cretaceous period & it must have hailed from what is now Colombia, Northern Africa & Wyoming.
  • It is a small pocket-size crab had a tiny lobster-esque shell; legs flattened like oars & huge, & Pound Puppies’ eyes that projected from its head.

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