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You Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea: But Bugs Are Shrimp of the Land (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Here's a direct link to the journal article.

Summary: phylogenomic study found that Hexapoda (insects, springtails, headcones) is a sister clade to Remipedia (venomous, cave-dwelling "crustaceans"). So it's basically the same that happened with birds and dinos, except with bugs.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They’re gross either way