{"id":25543,"date":"2025-05-13T23:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/this-fossilized-creature-has-3-eyes-but-everything-else-looks-familiar\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T23:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:26:59","slug":"this-fossilized-creature-has-3-eyes-but-everything-else-looks-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/this-fossilized-creature-has-3-eyes-but-everything-else-looks-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"This Fossilized Creature Has 3 Eyes, but Everything Else Looks Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More than 500 million years before Matt Groening and \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d introduced us to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tIrEhnYHSXA\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Blinky,<\/a> a mutated fish with an extra eye swimming through Springfield\u2019s Old Fishin\u2019 Hole, a three-eyed predator chased prey through seas of the Cambrian Period. Once it caught its quarry, a pair of spine-covered grasping claws and a circular mouth covered in teeth would finish the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Known as Mosura fentoni, this creature is a worthy addition to the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/08\/science\/opabinia-fossil.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">bizarre bestiary<\/a> preserved in the Burgess Shale, a substantial fossil deposit in the Canadian Rockies. However, the animal\u2019s anatomy, described Wednesday in the journal <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsos.242122\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Society Open Science<\/a>, reveals that Mosura may not be as alien as it looks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The first Mosura specimen was unearthed more than a century ago by the paleontologist Charles Walcott, who discovered the Burgess Shale in 1909. Over recent decades, paleontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto have uncovered dozens of additional Mosura fossils, which they nicknamed \u201csea moths\u201d because of flaps on the critters that help them swim and that look similar to wings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They were not fish, but it was clear that sea moths were related to radiodonts, a group of ancestral arthropods that dominated Cambrian food chains. But a closer inspection of the animal would not happen until a trove of Mosura specimens were unearthed in 2012 in Marble Canyon, a Burgess Shale outcrop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHaving this collection of both old and new specimens kicked us into gear to finally figure this animal out,\u201d said Joseph Moysiuk, a paleontologist who studied the Marble Canyon fossils as a doctoral student.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Moysiuk teamed up with his adviser at the Royal Ontario Museum, Jean-Bernard Caron, to examine some 60 sea moth specimens. Like other Burgess Shale creatures, many Mosura specimens were well preserved, retaining features like digestive tracts and circulatory systems. Some even possessed traces of nerve bundles in each of the creature\u2019s three eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The team photographed the Mosura specimens under polarized light to capture the detailed anatomy of the flattened fossils.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A defining feature of living arthropods is the division of their bodies into specialized parts. For example, crustaceans like crabs have different appendages adapted to perform certain functions like feeding or walking. Fossils of many early arthropod ancestors, including other radiodonts, reveal relatively simple body plans. Researchers have therefore long proposed that segmentation took a long time to evolve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mosura bucks this trend. Despite measuring only 2.5 inches long, the creature\u2019s body was divided into as many as 26 segments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s something that we\u2019ve never seen in this group of animals before,\u201d said Dr. Moysiuk, who is now at the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg, \u201cnot just in terms of the large number of segments, but also in terms of how they\u2019re differentiated from other parts of the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition to its wide swimming flaps, the animal possessed a highly segmented trunk at the back of its body brimming with gills. According to the researchers, this region resembles the abdomenlike structures that horseshoe crabs, woodlice and some insects use to breathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Optimizing its intake of oxygen would have been vital for an active predator like Mosura. The researchers posit that the animal chased tiny prey through the open water. It also most likely had to dart away from larger contemporaries like the two-foot-long <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/13\/science\/anomalocaris-fossil-reveals-eyes-with-16000-lenses.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">Anomalocaris<\/a> or the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/08\/science\/cambrian-fossil-radiodont.html?searchResultPosition=10\" title=\"\">spaceship-shaped Titanokorys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Because no other radiodont possessed such a specialized trunk, the researchers placed Mosura within its own group. And instead of naming the animal after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/simpsons.fandom.com\/wiki\/Blinky\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">that three-eyed cartoon fish<\/a>, the team drew inspiration from another pop culture reference, Mothra, Godzilla\u2019s winged nemesis. According to Dr. Moysiuk, the name is a nod both to the creature\u2019s nickname and to the enduring popularity of Burgess Shale critters in Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The team observed other noteworthy features in Mosura, including dark, reflective patches within the creature\u2019s body and swim flaps. The researchers posit that these represent lacunae: internal cavities that held the animal\u2019s blood after it was pumped out of its tubelike heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">However, not all researchers are convinced that these marks represent fossilized blood pouches. According to Joanna Wolfe, a paleontologist at Harvard University who was not involved in the new paper, they could represent other features, like gut glands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While some of Mosura\u2019s features may be up for scientific debate, Dr. Caron thinks the body segments of this ancient sea creature make clear its connection with living arthropods. \u201cIt\u2019s a very strange animal indeed,\u201d he said, \u201cbut maybe not necessarily as strange as it initially looks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     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