#Open Your Eyes #Nejek worm, one of the most wicked ancient creatures
Nejek worm is also translated as Nickelodeon shrimp, Neck shrimp, etc., and the Latin name is Necocaris, which means "swimming shrimp". But looking at its fossils and restorations, it doesn't look like a shrimp at all! It's more like a gang of tentacle monsters like cephalopods! Cephalopods are the group of squid, octopus, etc. that you skewer your favorite skewers at night. About 5 cm long, The Nejk worm lived in the middle Cambrian period, and its fossils were found in the Burgess Shale biota in Canada about 520 million years ago. Look at its squid-like body, with fins on both sides of the body, two large eyes and the same funnel spray pipe as the squid (only the funnel direction is opposite), and two long tentacles, isn't it like a squid with two tentacles!? So scientists thought it should be a mollusk, and temporarily classified it as a cephalopod, which was previously considered a hairy jaw.
