Jurassic fossil sheds light on evolutionary origins of thorny-headed worms

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a fossil acanthocephalan, Juracanthocephalus, from the 160-million-year-old Daohugou Biota in Inner Mongolia, China. This finding was published in Nature.

Apr 9, 2025 - 16:05
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Jurassic fossil sheds light on evolutionary origins of thorny-headed worms
A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a fossil acanthocephalan, Juracanthocephalus, from the 160-million-year-old Daohugou Biota in Inner Mongolia, China. This finding was published in Nature.