650 Million Year Old Creature Found in California Lake Reveals How Life Evolved

650 million year old creature found in California lake reveals how life evolved

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and alkali flies make it a hotspot for life that thrives where others can’t. The water here is not just salty—it’s loaded with alkaline compounds, creating a strange, almost alien environment. In this challenging landscape, researchers have uncovered a microscopic marvel. A team from the University of California, Berkeley, has f…

Recently, paleontologists discovered a new type of predator fossil in Canada that is 500 million years old. It is only as big as a human index finger, has three eyes, can hook prey with its mouth, and breathes through the gills on its tail. Its overall appearance is like an alien version of the "mantis shrimp", which can be called a micro monster on the seabed.

A curious marine predator lived more than 500 million years ago was discovered among the fossiliferous rocks of Burgess Shale, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. It's Mosura Fentoni, nicknamed the "marinefalena": a bizarre animal with three eyes, sharp claws and a circular mouth similar to a temperamatite. The fossil, exceptionally well preserved, was described in a study published in the magazine Royal Society Open Science by a team of paleontolo…