Mosura Fentonia: New Cambrian Predator

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506-Million-Year-Old âMothraâ Fossil Shows the Weirdness of Early Life

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A new creature from the Cambrian period has been discovered in Canada 's Burgess Shale .

The creature is part of a group called radiodonts, a now-extinct lineage of arthropods best known for Anomalocaris , a three-foot-long ( one-meter-long ) sea terror with spiny limbs and a circular mouth full of teeth.

It also had a tail-like segment of 16 tightly packed body sections, each lined with gills.

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