[Rockhounds] Surprise Discovery in Morocco Reveals Earliest Known Ancestor of Scorpions

[Paul]

Surprise Discovery Reveals Earliest Known Ancestor of Scorpions
And Spiders, Michelle Starr, Science Alert, May 26, 2024
https://www.sciencealert.com/surprise-discovery-reveals-earliest-known-ancestor-of-scorpions-and-spiders

Discovery of the first ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs
by Laure-Anne Pessina, Geoblog, May 14, 2024
https://wp.unil.ch/geoblog/en/2024/05/discovery-of-the-first-ancestors-of-scorpions-spiders-and-horseshoe-crabs/

The open access paper is:

Lustri, L., Gueriau, P. and Daley, A.C., 2024. Lower Ordovician
synziphosurine reveals early euchelicerate diversity and evolution.
Nature Communications, 15(1), p.3808.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48013-w

Yours,

Paul H.