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The Burgess Shale: Evolution's Big Bang

Pikaia

Pikaia
was one of the earliest members of the phylum Chordata – the category to which all animals with spinal cords belong. It swam close to the sea floor and may have been a filter feeder.

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Drawing by Laura Fry. Courtesy National Museum of Natural History

 

 

 

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