The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, resolving debates about their origins and anatomy. A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a fossil acanthocephalan named Juracanthocephalus in the 160-million-year-old Daohugou Biota in Inner Mongolia, China. The […]