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The razor-toothed sandworms which were seen inhabiting the deserts of Arrakis in the movie “Dune: Part Two” have starking similarity with something which existed as a predator on Earth nearly 500 million years ago.
These ancient Selkirkia worms, which are likely to have crawled on Earth during the Cambrian Explosion existed inside long and cone-shaped tubes and were among the most common predators present on the seafloor.
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Researchers examined fossils of the predatory worm and found a new species that persisted for 25 million years after it was believed to have become extinct.