DEPP
SEA CREATURE
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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.
