Behold the 'beautiful nightmare': a crab that had wrench-like claws and enormous, cartoonish eyes
By Lindsey Bever Lindsey Bever General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 26 at 6:23 AM Scientists have discovered a new species of crab that swam the seas 95 million years ago — and behold, it could be the next Pixar character.
But it’s not only the critter’s cartoonish appearance that has some researchers tickled, it’s also what the ancient animal means to science. Javier Luque, a postdoctoral paleontologist at Yale University and the University of Alberta, said the “cute,” “unusual” decapod crustacean will make scientists “rethink what a crab is.”
He and his research team, who have been studying the fossils found in Colombia as well as fossils found in the United States, published their findings Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. The research provides insight into a creature so peculiar it has been dubbed “the platypus of the crab world,” according to a news release.An artistic reconstruction of the Callichimaera perplexa, a creature so peculiar that scientists have dubbed it “the platypus of the crab world.
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