Scientists discover giant predatory worm more than 500 million years old, in Greenland – MonitorExpresso.com

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Greenland. A group of international scientists found the fossil of a ‘giant’ predatory worm more than 500 million years old, the animal about 30 centimeters long that inhabited the oceans, was discovered in northern Greenland.
 
Scientists dubbed the huge specimen, found in the Lower Cambrian fossil locality Sirius Passet in the Nordic country, “Timorebestia koprii,” combining Latin for “terrifying beast” and Kopri, or Korea Polar Research Institute, which participated in the study.
 
The authors of this work, which was published in the journal Science Advances, claim that these large worms could be among the first carnivorous animals to colonize the water column more than 518 million years ago, indicating an ancient dynasty of predators unknown to this day.
 
According to the remains found, the Timorebestia had fins on both sides of the body, long antennae, huge jaw structures in their mouths, and grew to more than 30 centimeters in length, making them one of the largest swimming animals of the Early Cambrian.
 
The Timorebestia is a distant, but also close, relative of the living arrowworms or chateognaths, which are one of the oldest animal fossils from the Cambrian period.

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