Hallucigenia belong to the phylum leaves, big head, torso on seven pairs of oblique dorsal has grown strong thorns, was first discovered in Canada, it is the most famous Cambrian animals. The etymology of the name is "bizarre daydream." But for scientists, figuring it looked like in the end it really is a nightmare. The beginning of this century, when it's in the Burgess Shale fossil pit was discovered in Canada, it looks like with a bristle worms. Later, a body of scientists believe that this animal is tubular, with seven pairs of legs to stand back long tentacles, and named it Hallucigenia. But recently, scientists in China discovered the well-preserved Hallucigenia next of kin. These animals are not leggy. It is named after the scientist to think long legs are actually stab it back, he thinks it is meat enough tentacles. But in the end what this animal which end back end first, but still enough a mystery. Since the initial poor fossil preservation, when the British paleontologist Morris 1977 which saw two rows of spines on the body when the distribution rules, mistakenly used as a walking legs, and put the legs to walk mistaken for decorations. He believes that such a fantasy creature "only a dream to dream," so named Hallucigenia. Chinese scientists found in Chengjiang fossils grotesque interpretation of this error corrected. Later, Mr. Hou Xianguang collected from Chengjiang best block specimens revealed after repair, the original recovery Hallucigenia head and tail are also upside down. In discussing the evolution of animals, Hallucigenia as the theoretical basis of this view, "the Cambrian explosion produced a lot more than modern doors (door-level bio), then the majority of extinction." 22 years ago, the first day of July, Yunnan Chengjiang County Maotianshan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Paleontology professor Hou Xianguang pick before holding a small piece of rock inspected, the day late afternoon, ready to pick up the tool at the last minute to go home, Ancient fossil specimens he collected fossils ---- Naro important landmark piece in the history of biological evolution. Since then, Hou Xianguang other Chinese paleontologists have discovered here more than 10,000 pieces dating back 530 million years of fossils specimens, which is by far the world's oldest and best preserved, most of the categories Cambrian fossils. Chengjiang animal fossils found, and opened the "Cambrian explosion," the mystery, for the study of the origin and evolution of life on Earth has scientific value immeasurable. Three years later, Chinese scientists announced to the world the message Maotianshan since become a "new heaven paleontology." Chengjiang animal fossil discovery and research by the world scientific community group called "one of the most amazing discoveries of the 20th century." Since the 1980s, more than 100 articles about it have been published in the international journal papers top science and included Britain, the United States, Germany and other countries college textbook. Our research scientists also received the Grand Prize of Natural Science, won the 2004 National Natural Science Award only. Not long ago, this reporter went to Yunnan Chengjiang, visited the paleontological history of science in the world, with the iconic significance of the place. Located within the county of Chengjiang fauna museum, we see the shape of a block of bizarre rock layers on the page "World Treasures." Curator 陈爱林 great value to us about the Chengjiang animal fossils found in: There are 4.6 billion years of Earth's history, more than 30 billion years ago produced a lower organisms ---- algae and bacteria, but in the long more than 20 billion years, the Earth's biological nothing more, some of the fossils tell us gradually unearthed , to 500 million to 600 million years ago in the Cambrian, the Earth's biological mutation seems significant, and some new creatures suddenly appeared, a theory that biological outbreak appeared on earth, but in Maotianshan fossils Before the group found that epigenetic emergence of multicellular animals is a huge mystery. Cambrian explosion of life on Earth without much support and validation fossils and evolution of early life on Earth plagued by scientists worldwide. The animal fossils found in Chengjiang, show window early life on Earth, as the Cambrian explosion of life provided scientific evidence. Chengjiang animal fossils containing formation to Maotianshan the center, located in an area of about 18 square kilometers, where Chinese scientists miraculously collected numerous specimens of Early Cambrian animals count more than 40 doors, more than 150 are , 180 kinds, in these samples, only a large number of sponges, cnidarians, mollusks, arthropods, as well as about 2/3 much so far not been found in humans had no name, can not be classified fossils. These fossils irrefutably tells us that the Earth does appear in the Cambrian period was a large outbreak of creatures, now all over 30 categories, almost all animal ancestors appeared in that period, a species called "big mutation" . Chenguan Zhang said, pointing to the specimen, Cambrian animal fossils dating back about 530 million years, then the software structure of these fossils to show all kinds of animals to life, wonderful, just like a piece of the world's oldest, most complete marine ecosystem community map. On the walls of the museum, according to the scientists recovered fossil marine life 530 million years ago, landscape plan, there are approximately anemones animals above, there is a weird swimming species, look strange and mysterious, like a science fiction movie scene . Global biologists study a fairly long period of recovery we see the figure of ancient creatures are ancestors of existing animals, and some have become extinct, but the wealth of information it conveys enough. Scientists also believe that Chengjiang animal fossils also amend and supplement the shortage of Darwinian evolution. As we all know, Darwin believed that biological evolution is natural _select_ion, survival of the fittest "gradual" process, this process is very long, from single cell to multicellular, from lower to higher, there is no "drastic change." The Chengjiang animal fossils has challenged the Darwinian theory of evolution, it proves that in 540 million years to 530 million years ago, about 1,000 years of "very short" time, the earth suddenly appeared more categories, multicellular metazoan to verify the "Cambrian explosion" exists to prove that both the gradual evolution of life, there are "drastic changes" to demonstrate Darwinian evolution of life on Earth has not been found in the process. Chengjiang animal fossils preserved many categories, showing the evolution of the Earth's early life the most amazing pedigree, the most spectacular part of the world in the history of paleontology have never seen before. Paleontologists from the fossil can clearly make out 530 million years ago, animal skin, cilia, appendages, digestive tract, brain and nerve prints, and even animal feces, etc., the study of animal structure of that period, the function forms, habits, evolution and environment provide a very valuable physical basis. Chengjiang animal fossils is an enormous treasure, although it's more than 20 years of research, but as a paleontology authority said today that all research is like "a shallow scratches on earth." Chengjiang fossils appear raised many new research topics about paleontology and systems, but also to correct a number of errors of previous research findings. Chenguan Zhang pointed to a place called "grotesque worm" fossil that this species is named after the British scientist Maurice, he thinks this exotic animal shapes with thorns walking, swimming with tentacles, called "Dream animal" . However, based on our Chengjiang paleontologists discovered "Hallucigenia" fossils on the _set_, Morris found fossil specimens just "weird bug" local, so the dorsal-ventral upside down. Chengjiang of our "Hallucigenia" fossil is very clear and complete enough to correct the description and conclusions of Morris. Also in the Chengjiang fossils found ancestors ---- Fuxian insect pest. 1993 Swedish scientists had thought that was kind of cysticercosis Fuxian animal or insect pest animal ancestors flat, and our scientists Professor Chen Junyuan 1996 paper believes Fuxian worm shrimp straight ancestors, shrimp is now straight insects ancestors, and thus indirectly indicate Fuxian insect pest is the ancestor of today. Traditional theory holds that, dating back 500 million years ago in the Cambrian not have large predators appear, and our scientists to collect from the Chengjiang fossils called Anomalocaris, the individual has a 2 m long, with long, like shrimp-like front paws, a giant predator Cambrian period, it had already been proven more complex relationship between the biological food chain, which greatly exceeded the traditional understanding of the diversity of model organisms. Leave Chengjiang animal fossil museum, we drove 11 kilometers from the county Department Maotianshan. Along the winding road, we came to the mountain before the 1984 cross-section of Professor Hou Xianguang animal fossils found piled up under a lot of shale sectional slices. Chen Ailin curator, said at our feet, he had now found all categories of animal ancestor fossils on Earth, a porous animals, cnidarians, linear pest animals lobopods, chordates, etc. Some fossils have been unable to determine its classification because their descendants have disappeared on Earth. There are some fossils on Earth has never been found, no name, Chinese experts and scholars at the time it is named "China", it is "romantic", as Fuxian insects (Fuxian is Chengjiang County in the Great Lakes), cap Tianshan insects, worms, etc. ...... Kuama Maotianshan before leaving, we asked curiously formation mechanism of Chengjiang animal fossils, Chenguan Zhang said: hundreds of millions of years ago, the Chengjiang area is a shallow, multi-category sea habitats where animals appear, perhaps geological changes, land a lot of sediment toward the sea creatures of the sea quickly buried, isolated the bacteria difficult to destroy air creatures, whose bodies were intact, after hundreds of millions of years of geological formation of fossils, and later due to the movement of the earth itself, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau rising from the sea, these animals appeared in the fossil hills ...... Sun_set_, a mist gradually faded Maotianshan figure, as it implies a mystery itself, as if waiting for more people to solve this 530 million years ago, "no word hieroglyphics."
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Hallucigenia belong to the phylum leaves, big head, torso on seven pairs of oblique dorsal has grown strong thorns, was first discovered in Canada, it is the most famous Cambrian animals. The etymology of the name is "bizarre daydream." Since the initial poor fossil preservation, when the British paleontologist Morris 1977 which saw two rows of spines on the body when the distribution rules, mistakenly used as a walking legs, and put the legs to walk mistaken for decorations. He believes that such a fantasy creature "only a dream to dream," so named Hallucigenia. But for scientists, figuring it looked like in the end it really is a nightmare. The beginning of this century, when it's in the Burgess Shale fossil pit was discovered in Canada, it looks like with a bristle worms. Later, a body of scientists believe that this animal is tubular, with seven pairs of legs to stand back long tentacles, and named it Hallucigenia. But recently, scientists in China discovered the well-preserved Hallucigenia next of kin. These animals are not leggy. It is named after the scientist to think long legs are actually stab it back, he thinks it is meat enough tentacles. But in the end what this animal which end back end first, but still enough a mystery. Since the initial poor fossil preservation, when the British paleontologist Morris 1977 which saw two rows of spines on the body when the distribution rules, mistakenly used as a walking legs, and put the legs to walk mistaken for decorations. He believes that such a fantasy creature "only a dream to dream," so named Hallucigenia. Chinese scientists found in Chengjiang fossils grotesque interpretation of this error corrected. Later, Mr. Hou Xianguang collected from Chengjiang best block specimens revealed after repair, the original recovery Hallucigenia head and tail are also upside down. In discussing the evolution of animals, Hallucigenia as the theoretical basis of this view, "the Cambrian explosion produced a lot more than modern doors (door-level bio), then the majority of extinction." 22 years ago, the first day of July, Yunnan Chengjiang County Maotianshan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Paleontology professor Hou Xianguang pick before holding a small piece of rock inspected, the day late afternoon, ready to pick up the tool at the last minute to go home, Ancient fossil specimens he collected fossils ---- Naro important landmark piece in the history of biological evolution. Since then, Hou Xianguang other Chinese paleontologists have discovered here more than 10,000 pieces dating back 530 million years of fossils specimens, which is by far the world's oldest and best preserved, most of the categories Cambrian fossils. Chengjiang animal fossils found, and opened the "Cambrian explosion," the mystery, for the study of the origin and evolution of life on Earth has scientific value immeasurable. Three years later, Chinese scientists announced to the world the message Maotianshan since become a "new heaven paleontology." Chengjiang animal fossil discovery and research by the world scientific community group called "one of the most amazing discoveries of the 20th century." Since the 1980s, more than 100 articles about it have been published in the international journal papers top science and included Britain, the United States, Germany and other countries college textbook. Our research scientists also received the Grand Prize of Natural Science, won the 2004 National Natural Science Award only. Not long ago, this reporter went to Yunnan Chengjiang, visited the paleontological history of science in the world, with the iconic significance of the place. Located within the county of Chengjiang fauna museum, we see the shape of a block of bizarre rock layers on the page "World Treasures." Curator 陈爱林 great value to us about the Chengjiang animal fossils found in: There are 4.6 billion years of Earth's history, more than 30 billion years ago produced a lower organisms ---- algae and bacteria, but in the long more than 20 billion years, the Earth's biological nothing more, some of the fossils tell us gradually unearthed , to 500 million to 600 million years ago in the Cambrian, the Earth's biological mutation seems significant, and some new creatures suddenly appeared, a theory that biological outbreak appeared on earth, but in Maotianshan fossils Before the group found that epigenetic emergence of multicellular animals is a huge mystery. Cambrian explosion of life on Earth without much support and validation fossils and evolution of early life on Earth plagued by scientists worldwide. The animal fossils found in Chengjiang, show window early life on Earth, as the Cambrian explosion of life provided scientific evidence. Chengjiang animal fossils containing formation to Maotianshan the center, located in an area of about 18 square kilometers, where Chinese scientists miraculously collected numerous specimens of Early Cambrian animals count more than 40 doors, more than 150 are , 180 kinds, in these samples, only a large number of sponges, cnidarians, mollusks, arthropods, as well as about 2/3 much so far not been found in humans had no name, can not be classified fossils. These fossils irrefutably tells us that the Earth does appear in the Cambrian period was a large outbreak of creatures, now all over 30 categories, almost all animal ancestors appeared in that period, a species called "big mutation" . Chenguan Zhang said, pointing to the specimen, Cambrian animal fossils dating back about 530 million years, then the software structure of these fossils to show all kinds of animals to life, wonderful, just like a piece of the world's oldest, most complete marine ecosystem community map. On the walls of the museum, according to the scientists recovered fossil marine life 530 million years ago, landscape plan, there are approximately anemones animals above, there is a weird swimming species, look strange and mysterious, like a science fiction movie scene . Global biologists study a fairly long period of recovery we see the figure of ancient creatures are ancestors of existing animals, and some have become extinct, but the wealth of information it conveys enough. Scientists also believe that Chengjiang animal fossils also amend and supplement the shortage of Darwinian evolution. As we all know, Darwin believed that biological evolution is natural _select_ion, survival of the fittest "gradual" process, this process is very long, from single cell to multicellular, from lower to higher, there is no "drastic change." The Chengjiang animal fossils has challenged the Darwinian theory of evolution, it proves that in 540 million years to 530 million years ago, about 1,000 years of "very short" time, the earth suddenly appeared more categories, multicellular metazoan to verify the "Cambrian explosion" exists to prove that both the gradual evolution of life, there are "drastic changes" to demonstrate Darwinian evolution of life on Earth has not been found in the process. Chengjiang animal fossils preserved many categories, showing the evolution of the Earth's early life the most amazing pedigree, the most spectacular part of the world in the history of paleontology have never seen before. Paleontologists from the fossil can clearly make out 530 million years ago, animal skin, cilia, appendages, digestive tract, brain and nerve prints, and even animal feces, etc., the study of animal structure of that period, the function forms, habits, evolution and environment provide a very valuable physical basis. Chengjiang animal fossils is an enormous treasure, although it's more than 20 years of research, but as a paleontology authority said today that all research is like "a shallow scratches on earth." Chengjiang fossils appear raised many new research topics about paleontology and systems, but also to correct a number of errors of previous research findings. Chenguan Zhang pointed to a place called "grotesque worm" fossil that this species is named after the British scientist Maurice, he thinks this exotic animal shapes with thorns walking, swimming with tentacles, called "Dream animal" . However, based on our Chengjiang paleontologists discovered "Hallucigenia" fossils on the _set_, Morris found fossil specimens just "weird bug" local, so the dorsal-ventral upside down. Chengjiang of our "Hallucigenia" fossil is very clear and complete enough to correct the description and conclusions of Morris. Also in the Chengjiang fossils found ancestors ---- Fuxian insect pest. 1993 Swedish scientists had thought that was kind of cysticercosis Fuxian animal or insect pest animal ancestors flat, and our scientists Professor Chen Junyuan 1996 paper believes Fuxian worm shrimp straight ancestors, shrimp is now straight insects ancestors, and thus indirectly indicate Fuxian insect pest is the ancestor of today. Traditional theory holds that, dating back 500 million years ago in the Cambrian not have large predators appear, and our scientists to collect from the Chengjiang fossils called Anomalocaris, the individual has a 2 m long, with long, like shrimp-like front paws, a giant predator Cambrian period, it had already been proven more complex relationship between the biological food chain, which greatly exceeded the traditional understanding of the diversity of model organisms. Leave Chengjiang animal fossil museum, we drove 11 kilometers from the county Department Maotianshan. Along the winding road, we came to the mountain before the 1984 cross-section of Professor Hou Xianguang animal fossils found piled up under a lot of shale sectional slices. Chen Ailin curator, said at our feet, he had now found all categories of animal ancestor fossils on Earth, a porous animals, cnidarians, linear pest animals lobopods, chordates, etc. Some fossils have been unable to determine its classification because their descendants have disappeared on Earth. There are some fossils on Earth has never been found, no name, Chinese experts and scholars at the time it is named "China", it is "romantic", as Fuxian insects (Fuxian is Chengjiang County in the Great Lakes), cap Tianshan insects, worms, etc. ...... Kuama Maotianshan before leaving, we asked curiously formation mechanism of Chengjiang animal fossils, Chenguan Zhang said: hundreds of millions of years ago, the Chengjiang area is a shallow, multi-category sea habitats where animals appear, perhaps geological changes, land a lot of sediment toward the sea creatures of the sea quickly buried, isolated the bacteria difficult to destroy air creatures, whose bodies were intact, after hundreds of millions of years of geological formation of fossils, and later due to the movement of the earth itself, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau rising from the sea, these animals appeared in the fossil hills ...... Sun_set_, a mist gradually faded Maotianshan figure, as it implies a mystery itself, as if waiting for more people to solve this 530 million years ago, "no word hieroglyphics." Hallucigenia also called mescaline hallucinations class monster, mescaline drug is an illusion, just like the creature in the illusion of things.
