Spiky monsters: New species of 'super-armored' worm discovered

Phys.Org ^ | 06-29-2015 | Provided by University of Cambridge

[raybbr]

Hmmmmm.....

[Red Badger]

Their Modern Day descendants:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Onychophora&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hMySVf3RI4SayQT2lZqACw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1141&bih=734

[Alex Murphy]

[MUDDOG]

Animals during the Cambrian were incredibly diverse

The downside was, there was a lot of microaggression.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

• Newly found ring of teeth uncovers what common ancestor of molting animals looked like
• Phallus-shaped fossils identified as new species (Caution - Graphic images .. acorn worms relative)

[JoeProBono]

[Red Badger]

When they find a fossilized Confederate Flag, let me know..................

[MUDDOG]

I just noticed today that the Confederate battle flag is a reverse-color (blue to red and vice versa) of the Cross of St. Andrew and the Cross of St. Patrick flags superimposed.

[Red Badger]

The Union Jack is THREE crosses superimposed on one another..............

[Red Badger]

St. Andrew's Cross is on the Florida State Flag since 1900..................

[MUDDOG]

Correct. The other one is the Cross of St. George.

Form 1606 to 1801, it was the Cross of St. George and the Cross of St. Andrew. Then they added the Cross of St. Patrick (the red X).

[MUDDOG]

The red X on a white field is the Cross of St. Patrick, according to my Britannica.

The cross of St. Andrew is a white X on a blue field. (I looked it up because a neighbor flies it.)

[FateAmenableToChange]

No one has seen the obvious relationship to the pre-Cambrian worms from Tremors? What’s going on here?!!!!!

[Red Badger]

By St. Andrew’s Cross, they mean diagonals. St. Andrew was crucified on a diagonal cross...............

[MUDDOG]

Good point.

I’m going by the color plates in my Britannica.

[P.O.E.]

[Red Badger]

Alabama also has it in their flag.............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Alabama

[Marko413]

Given its sedentary lifestyle and soft body, the Chinese Collins' Monster would have been a sitting duck for any predators, so it developed an impressive defence mechanism: as many as 72 sharp and pointy spikes of various sizes covering its body, making it one of the earliest soft-bodied animals to develop armour for protection.

I like how they talk as if the worm decided it needed spikes and willed them into existence. If animals in the past could will themselves defense mechanisms, surely we humans are on the downward of the evolutionary ladder.

[MUDDOG]

So it looks like the Confederate battle flag was just a variant of the Cross of St. Andrew flag (with no St. Patrick!)

But I think the Britannica is right in saying that the British flag added a (supposed) Cross of St. Patrick in 1801. And the blue and red reversed compared to the Confederate flag.