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A weird sea creature was anatomically unlike anything ever seen — flipping it around led to a revelation
They turned its fossils upside down. Paleontologist Charles Doolittle Wolcott first encountered fossils of Pikaia in the Burgess Shale deposits of British Columbia, dating to 508 million years ago ...
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Pikaia Lodge
Nestled amid the Galapagos' unique Pampas-Fern Sedge Zone landscape in central Isla Santa Cruz, this pristine hilltop boutique commands stunning vistas of the surrounding archipelago. Remote even ...
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Whoops, We’ve Been Looking at a Really Important Fossil Upside Down This Whole Time
Since its discovery in 1910, a creature from the Middle Cambrian known as Pikaia gracilens was widely believed to be the earliest known ancestor of humanity. Apart from its very primitive ...