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Sea Scorpions Used Scuba-Gear?

Galvasean · 2020-07-03 19:45:35

In what could be an unprecidented discovery, it ppears that 500million year old sea scorpions may have 'borrowed' the shells of other creatures and used them a s a sort of 'reversed scuba gear' in order to venture on to land. Seems a bit far fetched at first taught, but the evidence appears to be pointing in this…

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In what could be an unprecidented discovery, it ppears that 500million year old sea scorpions may have 'borrowed' the shells of other creatures and used them a s a sort of 'reversed scuba gear' in order to venture on to land.
Seems a bit far fetched at first taught, but the evidence appears to be pointing in this direction.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090413-first-tool-users.html

Illustration by the eminent Charles R. Knight

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