This is Tamisiocaris borealis, a newly described fossilized creature from Greenland that lived around 520 million years ago. Like certain types of modern whale, it possessed large appendages that were used to filter plankton and other small organisms from the ocean.
Source: www.iflscience.com
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I am a curious guy with diverse skills and tastes. From computer programmer to historian, I search to make old, lost and forgotten things known to the world.
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