Two meters long.. Half-billion-year-old giant insects discovered in Morocco
A previous discovery of a different kind of "arthropods" in the Zagora region of Morocco
The British University of Exeter confirmed, in a recent report, that a team of international researchers discovered a fossil site in Morocco containing huge insects called "giant arthropods" that dominated the world's seas millions of years ago.
New discoveries indicate that these insects are close relatives of marine organisms known to people today, such as shrimp and spiders, and that they roamed the seas 470 million years ago.
The new discovery occurred in the Zagora region in the south of the Kingdom.
According to the university, early evidence from the fossil site shows that the area, which is desert today, was once under the sea, and that many large arthropods were "swimming freely" there.
Although the discovery needs further scrutiny and analysis, based on these samples, the length of some of these insects reaches two meters.
The research team says that this discovery will open new horizons for research in paleontological and environmental sciences.
The principal investigator, Dr. Farid Saleh, from the Swiss University of Lausanne, confirmed that the new fossils will help complete the understanding of scientists and researchers who are accused of knowing what life was like on Earth in ancient times.
According to the university, this region in Morocco was chosen as one of "the 100 most important geological sites worldwide due to its importance in understanding evolution during the early Ordovician era, about 470 million years ago."
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