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A new species of carnivorous crustacean has been identified, which roamed the seas 435 million years ago, grasping its prey with spiny limbs before devouring it. The muscle structure and leg morphology of the new species suggests that it used its long, claw-like appendages to catch prey in a similar way to modern remipedes, blind crustaceans still found in salt water-filled caves. This new research extends the range of this enigmatic group of fossil arthropods back to the Silurian, some 435 million years ago. [Source: Physorg.com]
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