'Walking cactus' is arthropods' lost relative

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Fossil find sheds light on how jointed legs of insects, spiders and crustaceans might have originated.

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Zoë Corbyn
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Corbyn, Z. 'Walking cactus' is arthropods' lost relative. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.121

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