Friday, March 6, 2015

DEPP SEA CREATURE


DEPP SEA CREATURE



The 1990 movie EDWARD SCISSORHANDS has had a brush with science. Researchers discovered a pincered marine’s animal that lived 500 million years ago and named it after Johnny Depp- The actor who played Scissor hands.  Called KOOTENICHELA DEPPI, it likely used its claw like extremities for foraging. K.Deppi is the ancestor of all arthropods, says  paleobiologist David Legg, “a group that’s conquered most of  Earth’s ecosystem , including the depths of the mariana trench and the slopes of Mount Everest.

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