Hallucigenia Enamel Pin (Hallucigenia sparsa) Eidolon Vegetation comprises up to 90%

Vegetation comprises up to 90% of its diet

Bryozoan Colony Fossil: Over 385 million years old

Discovered in Argentina and living about 130 million years ago

Let this fossil pair inspire curiosity

This professionally prepared anatomical torso specimen features the vertebral column

Hallucigenia Enamel Pin (Hallucigenia sparsa) Eidolon Vegetation comprises up to 90%If evolution ever doodled in the margins, it was Hallucigenia. This tiny, wormlike oddball from the Cambrian explosion (over 500 million years ago) looked like something straight out of a sci fi concept sketch: a spindly body tipped with clawed legs, and a row of absurdly long spines jutting from its back like a living pincushion. Originally reconstructed upside down (yes, paleontologists once thought it walked on its spines), Hallucigenia has since