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Scientists Discover Smiling Face of 500-Million-Year-Old Creature

Originally Published 10 days ago — by The Daily Galaxy

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Scientists have identified the face of the 500-million-year-old creature Hallucigenia from Canada’s Burgess Shale, revealing a smiling face with tiny eyes and teeth, correcting previous misconceptions about its anatomy, and suggesting it may be an early ancestor of modern velvet worms, thus shedding new light on early animal evolution.