A 430 million years old sea creature apparently dragged its offspring around on stings like kites - a baffling habit not seen anywhere else in the animal kingdom.
Scientists who discovered the fossil have dubbed it the kite runner. Ten capsules tethered to its back appear to contain juvenile progeny all at different stages of development.
As far the study says, this many-legged, eyeless, 1 cm long creature is not directly related to any living creature. It clearly had the segmented body and exoskeleton of an arthopod, it was quite a job to figure out precisely where to position this beast on the evolutionary tree.
Source: PNAS
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