Studies continue unabated to learn the history of contemporary living things in more detail. We have recently seen the discovery of the ancestors of animals such as cows and pigs. Now such a development has occurred with regard to creatures such as spiders and scorpions.

Scientists, Steapedites abundant He determined that a creature called ‘Arthropod’, which lived almost half a billion years ago, was the grandfather of creatures in the ‘arthropod’ class, such as spiders and scorpions. The findings have been published via Nature Communications.

This species, only 5 millimeters in size, lived in the oceans 478 million years ago.

Fossils of this species were actually discovered twenty years ago. However, as a result of the analyzes carried out today, it became clear that the fossil belonged to a class of arthropods. Lorenzo Lustri, one of the researchers, said in his statement: “At first we just wanted to describe and name the fossil. We had no idea it would hold so many secrets. After analysis, realized it filled an important gap in the evolutionary tree It was a very exciting surprise..” he said.

The creature is approx 478 million years ago in an ocean in what is now Morocco He is thought to still be alive. Steapedites bountifulis, the ancestor of spiders and scorpions, was a very small animal. So much so that, according to scientists, its magnitude is only 5 millimeters all around. You can see an image in the image above.

Arthropods are a group of invertebrates that include many species, including insects. For this reason, their numbers are quite high in the world. Predictions suggest that there is animal life on our planet about 75% shows what they made. It also has its own types. One of them is “cheliceratesThe class known as ”. It includes creatures such as spiders and scorpions with features such as teeth or pincers that use venom to capture their prey.

Although we know a lot about the species within the chelicerae, it was not clear when and how they diverged and underwent different evolutionary processes than other arthropods. The new discovery is an important step in clarifying this. So the researchers’ next step is to study it to better understand both the evolution of the species and the way it created the species we know today. investigate in detail will be.