A non-archeologist does something non-archeological

Article seems to have it's branches of science mixed up, but interesting anyway.



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In 2011, things started coming together. Before that, archeologists thought that Aegirocassis benmoulae was a predatory animal, much like the major of anomalocaridids that had come before it. But the man who found the Aegirocassis benmoulae fossils — a local collector in Morocco by the name of Mohamed Ben Moula who doesn’t have archeological training — changed all that. "With a big smile, he walks over to me and says, ‘you know, I have something to show you,’" Van Roy says. Ben Moula showed him a beautifully preserved appendage with "very delicate filter-feeding morphology; it had all these fine spines," Van Roy says. "It was shocking."

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