Dr. Yara Haridi
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Podcast Appearances
And each bump has tubules and it's really hard.
And we're like, what if?
So we scanned a bunch of arthropods and basically, long story short, found out that this Lake Cambrian guy was not a vertebrate.
No.
At all.
But an arthropod.
So what does that mean?
Exactly.
So what that means is that we don't have our transitional fossil.
We don't have the guy in the middle.
We still have this giant gap between squishy boys and fully armored fish.
And that was really weird.
And it really bothered me.
I was really upset.
Yeah.
I was like, oh no, my tooth, my earliest tooth.
But even at that moment, I was like, why does it still look like a tooth?
Why are these arthropods covered in things that look like odontodes?
Yeah.
And what are they?