500 million-year-old “amazing” fossils preserved the brains of this creepy 3-eyed predator
What had thorny claws sticking out of his mouth, had a toilet brush-shaped body, and looked like he had slipped off the cover of a sci-fi novel? An oceanic predator of the Cambrian period known as Stanleycaris hirpex. The strange fossil’s recent fossils are exceptionally complete, preserving the brain, nervous system, and a third eye. …