Wiwaxia Enamel Pin (Wiwaxia corrugata) Gift Shop Inventory Folded Length 34 cm (13

Folded Length 34 cm (13

The polished piece highlights both the crystal structure and banded patterning of the stone

The northern fur seal ranges in the Pacific ocean from California to southern Alaska

and distinctive lyre-shaped horns

reflecting their complex social structures

Wiwaxia Enamel Pin (Wiwaxia corrugata) Gift Shop Inventory Folded Length 34 cm (13Imagine a sea slug that raided a medieval armory, and youve basically got Wiwaxia corrugata. This Cambrian oddball, about 5 cm long, scuttled across seafloors over 500 million years ago, covered in a mosaic of armor like scales and topped with impressive spines jutting from its back. Neither mollusk nor worm, but somewhere in between, Wiwaxia confounded paleontologists for decades until it was finally recognized as one of the early evolutionary