An international team of paleontologists has unearthed a fossilized arthropod that carried its young in pouches tethered to the parent’s body, like a stream of tiny kites. Aquilonifer spinosus carried its young in capsules or pouches tethered to its body. Image credit: Derek E. G. Briggs et al. The ancient creature, scientifically named Aquilonifer spinosus, lived about 430 million years ago (Silurian period) on the sea floor with a variety of other...
