Yohannes HaileSelassie and colleagues announce the find of a nearly 4 millionyearold hominid from Ethiopia, possibly the remains of Australopithecus anamensis.2005Adrian Glover and Thomas Dahlgren announce the discovery of a new species of marine worm, iscovered off the Swedish coast, that lives on whale bones on the sea floor. They name the species Osedax mucofloris, meaning literally boneeating snot flower.2005M.A. Whyte announces the discovery of a 330 millionyearold trackway of a 5footlong, sixlegged water scorpion eurypterid that could walk on land while the first tetrapods tried to do the same thing. Two years later, Simon Braddy, Markus Poschmann and borators will announce the find of fossil claw from an 8foot eurypterid.2006Qiang Li and lleagues describe Castorocauda lutrasimilis, a Jurassic mammal that looked something like a mix between a beaver, otter, and platypus. Their discovery pushes back mammalian aptation to an aquatic lifestyle by more than 100 million years.2006Paleontologist Neil Clark suggests that some Loch Ness sightings may have been inspired by partial glimpses of traveling circus elephants taking dips in the lake

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