An ancient crab fossil dubbed by researchers as the 'Forbidden Dorito,' has helped to unlock some mysteries of crab evolution.
Arthur Anker & Javier Luque
An ancient crab fossil dubbed by researchers as the"Forbidden Dorito," has helped to unlock some mysteries of crab evolution., a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology in the United Kingdom, says that the strange, spiny, triangular crab fossil from Spain's Eocene epoch , belongs to a group that had previously baffled experts due to its unclear position in the crab family tree.
"This is a new piece of a larger puzzle that, together with recent fossil discoveries—from perplexing to dinosaur-era crabs trapped in amber—are providing new views on the origins of many groups, and the evolutionary patters and processes in deep time that have shaped them over 200 million years," he says., Luque, Fernando A. Ferratges from the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain and other collaborators described the oldest recorded fossil crabs of the subfamilypushing back the origins of the subfamily millions of years earlier than previously thought.
"The book of Earth’s history is ‘written in stone,’ with rock layers and fossils being its pages and words, so it is on us to discover the missing pages and learn how to read their words and the fantastic stories they tell," Luque says, adding that he seeks to understand how novel forms and functions originate and change through time, with special focus on tropical faunas.... [+]
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