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The museum, which houses about 115,000 fossils in its collection, has now placed the ornithopod vertebra on public display.

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Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land, say scientists.