We discovered a new fossil species of horseshoe crab (and named it after David Attenborough)
- Written by: Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell, Post-doctoral researcher in Palaeobiology, University of New England
Katrina Kenny, Author providedThere are only four known species of horseshoe crabs alive today. But the fossil record shows that hundreds of millions of years ago they came in a huge range of shapes and sizes.
In our research, published today in the open-access journal PeerJ, we describe one of these extinct species — Attenborolimulus...