The finding of pharyngeal teeth and circumoral mouthparts in fossils of the Cambrian lobopodian animal Hallucigenia sparsa improves our understanding of the deep evolutionary links between moulting animals. See Letter p.75
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Ma, X. Hallucigenia's head. Nature 523, 38–39 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14627
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