"Inside-Out Fossil Discovered"

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Scientists uncover 'inside-out, legless, headless wonder' that lived long before the dinosaurs

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A 444 million -year-old "inside-out" fossil with well-preserved soft tissue was found in South Africa .

The fossil dates back to the Late Ordovician mass extinction ( 443 million years ago ) The fossil is a new species of multisegmented arthropod that may have lived in oxygen-poor waters.

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