When paleontologists first described their reconstruction of Opabinia, the response was laughter! Opabinia (Opabinia regalis) was first found in the famous Burgess Shale fossil formation. With its unprecedented 5 eyes, and its prehensile proboscis, opabinia is among the strangest of the strange animals that swam Earth's seas in the Cambrian era (about half a billion years ago).
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