However, Mosura also possessed a feature not seen in any other radiodont - an abdomen-like body region made up of multiple segments at its back end. Life reconstruction of Mosura fentoni.

Discover the unique Cambrian sea creature Mosura fentoni, a radiodont challenging traditional arthropod evolution theories in Burgess Shale.

Scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale, a discovery that reshapes how the evolution of arthropods is understood. This new find, named Mosura fentoni, lived ...

Mosura fentoni, with its three eyes and unique anatomy, overturns established classifications. This discovery, published in Royal Society Open Science, is based on the analysis of 61 remarkably ...

Scientists examining a rare fossil found in Canada’s Burgess Shale have discovered a predator with three eyes that lived over 500 million years ago. The fossil species, named Mosura fentoni for ...

Mosura fentoni, also dubbed “sea moth” due to its broad swimming flaps and narrow abdomen, was a member of an extinct group of animals called radiodonts, which included the meter-long marine predator ...

“Mosura fentoni was about the size of your index finger and had three eyes, spiny jointed claws, a circular mouth lined with teeth and a body with swimming flaps along its sides,” the museum ...

Experts in Canada have discovered fossils of a 500-million-year-old predator that lived in the sea. Not only that, it also possessed some rather, err, unusual features. It had three eyes, spiny ...

Experts say the three-eyed predator was around the size of an index finger and had spiny claws and a circular mouth lined with teeth. Find out more here.