The Platypus of the Crab World

(Image credit: Elissa Martin, Yale Peabody Museum)

Latin: Callichimaera perplexa

English: "perplexing beautiful chimera"

Yale paleontologist Javier Luque:

Callichimaera perplexa is so unique and strange that it can be considered the platypus of the crab world.

Earlier this month Professor Luque and other paleontologists announced the discovery of crab species that lived in the mid-Cretaceous period of 90-95 million years ago.

We are happy to take off our political lenses and rejoice in the advancement of pure knowledge. I wish everyone would do that more often.