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A little Kraken wakes

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Fossils from the famed Burgess Shale continue to deliver fresh perspectives on a dramatic episode in evolutionary time. The latest revelations bear on the early history of cephalopod molluscs.

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Figure 1: Jet propulsion.

TOP LEFT: MAREVISION/PHOTOLIBRARY.COM; RIGHT: NASA; BOTTOM LEFT: M. COLLINS

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  1. Stefan Bengtson is in the Department of Palaeozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. stefan.bengtson@nrm.se,

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Bengtson, S. A little Kraken wakes. Nature 465, 427–428 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465427a

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