“A dream-like animal!” Cried paleontologist Simon Conway Morris when he discovered Hallucigenia. Its mysterious shape still puzzles many scientists. Some had to literally turn their ideas upside down: what researchers first thought were legs turned out being a line of dorsal spines, what was once assumed to be its belly is now considered its back!
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