From Science Magazine.

Buried in a museum drawer for nearly 50 years, a fist-size fossil has handed paleontologists the evidence they’d been hunting for: unmistakable claws on one of the oldest known relatives of spiders and scorpions. Olivia Maule, a reporting intern at Science, explains.

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CREDITS: (IMAGES) LEROSEY-AUBRIL AND ORTEGA-HERNÁNDEZ/NATURE; (ANIMATION) MASATO HATTORI © HARVARD UNIVERSITY; (MUSIC) CHRIS BURNS; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE

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