Meet Hallucigenia, a spiky worm from over half a billion years ago that defied the rules of nature and forced us to rethink the story of life on Earth. Its discovery shook the scientific world ...

The significance of the Hallucigenia worm in the plot of Attack on Titan is undeniable. The complex and highly detailed anime is renowned for its strong and intricately woven storyline. While ...

If his group's findings are correct, they may be able to track down the ugly little worm we can thank for shrimp cocktail. Hallucigenia is aptly named: With long spines down its back, seven pairs ...

Sometimes it’s hard to tell what an animal looks like when it’s been extinct for over 400 million years — just ask Hallucigenia. Scientists have studied the thumb-sized worm for more than 50 ...

A fifty-year-old mystery surrounding one of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever discovered has been solved -- and an ancient worm-like creature ... known as Hallucigenia due to its strange ...

However, scientists now believe they have finally been able to locate Hallucigenia’s position in evolutionary history by showing that it is the ancestor of a small group of worm-like creatures ...

Here's a bit more about Hallucigenia (the worm, not the robot) from an earlier post on the blog: Hallucigenia is aptly named: With long spines down its back, seven pairs of clawed legs ...

Both Hallucigenia and Collin's monster are ancestors of the modern velvet worm, a colorful, terrestrial, caterpillar-like worm that spits slime at its prey. But with such distinct styling compared ...