Hallucigenia Enamel Pin (Hallucigenia sparsa) Eidolon deforestation and over-hunting

deforestation and over-hunting

Discovered in England in 1983

Discovered in Argentina and living about 130 million years ago

5 cm (25 in

Vegetation comprises up to 90% of its diet

Hallucigenia Enamel Pin (Hallucigenia sparsa) Eidolon deforestation and over-huntingIf evolution ever doodled in the margins, it was Hallucigenia. This tiny, wormlike oddball from the Cambrian explosion (over 500 million years ago) looked like something straight out of a sci fi concept sketch: a spindly body tipped with clawed legs, and a row of absurdly long spines jutting from its back like a living pincushion. Originally reconstructed upside down (yes, paleontologists once thought it walked on its spines), Hallucigenia has since